panel shading
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franz bolo
Sr Member
An airbrush can be used. IF you don't have one, pastels can work nicely.
Graphite is also good to use. You can make some from pencil lead and lightly brush it on or smear it with your finger. To get a hard edge, you can get a sticky note and get some pencil lead on it, then stick it where you want and smear the lead off onto the model part.
When you lift up the sticky note, you have a nice line that fades out. You can also do light washes first. You can also paint some chips in the metal with some Tamiya XF-16 matte aluminum. The XF paints are nice.
I did this with some pastels. It's not the best example, but it only took less than a minute and had the effect I wanted.
FB
Graphite is also good to use. You can make some from pencil lead and lightly brush it on or smear it with your finger. To get a hard edge, you can get a sticky note and get some pencil lead on it, then stick it where you want and smear the lead off onto the model part.
When you lift up the sticky note, you have a nice line that fades out. You can also do light washes first. You can also paint some chips in the metal with some Tamiya XF-16 matte aluminum. The XF paints are nice.
I did this with some pastels. It's not the best example, but it only took less than a minute and had the effect I wanted.
FB
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tk1608
Sr Member
Is it that faded look on the area that looks like it would be canvas on the full size aircraft you're after ?...If it is, I would add a drop of light gray (no more than that) to some flat clear coat and spray it over the area you want to appear faded. I've used the technique on aircraft to blend/fade decals if the aircraft is a bit weathered.
Hope that helps
Phil
Hope that helps
Phil
Gigatron
Sr Member
There's also a techniqe known as "pre-shading".
What you do is mix up a darker version of the color of the final coat. Let's say your final color is grey. Mix up a batch of very dark grey and spray it wherever you would like to see tonal variations. Some people do it to the center of each panel, some, to the panel lines.
Either way, spray where you want the variation to occur. It can be symmetrical or random. After it's dried, spray down your top color, but spray in light coats. Stop when the under-color is just barely visible through the top color.
-Fred
What you do is mix up a darker version of the color of the final coat. Let's say your final color is grey. Mix up a batch of very dark grey and spray it wherever you would like to see tonal variations. Some people do it to the center of each panel, some, to the panel lines.
Either way, spray where you want the variation to occur. It can be symmetrical or random. After it's dried, spray down your top color, but spray in light coats. Stop when the under-color is just barely visible through the top color.
-Fred
