Vallejo Model Colour

[Guest]

One thing you can try Dougie. They say up to 25% flow improver. Quite handy I have found if you are airbrushing effects. Cuts down the amount of paint spewing out which gives better control especially as you can bring the PSI down in turn, the apit is so thin, also cutting the paint flow right down. Been using this method at 10psi.
Laurie

Cheers mate will try when I get on to some armour or aircraft with Vallejo paints. I've got Alclad and Tamiya for the cars the now

[Razzie43]

Hi all,i just want to say i never use the colour i see always mix with white or with a dark colour.


I never like what's in the jar they sell to me.


And you better start with a very light colour then with they original one.(for weathering only)


GL & HF

[Guest]

My preferred way now is to find the nearest base colour, cover the model with it, - brush, airbrush, it makes little difference - then adjust the colour with filters, this way you not only have complete control over the final colour, you have a surface that is complex and organic in its structure, having many almost transparent coats of varying colours. Once this has been achieved, pin washes and streaking etc can be applied. I've tried this on my new Panzer KPF lll, in fact, the primer colour was nearly ok to work over, but in the end I gave it a dusting with a slightly deeper grey model -air, then filtered it (and am still fine tuning it) to my desired colour. You can see the original colour on a few of the upturned wheels in the foreground![ATTACH]122724.IPB[/ATTACH]



Still loads to do, but a thoroughly pleasant work-flow developing for me, and all oils or enamel based brush work once the base coat is done.

[Guest]

For me John I do not have a standard way of doing things. Never been a standard type always reaching for


something new changing to hopefully improve. I can frustrate myself at times in this approach but


generally it has suited me and my character well. Think this is perhaps part character and part a life


time in architecture where nothing stands still with innovation being paramount. It is rare that I take


the same approach twice.


For me a lot depends on the type of model whether it is winged aircraft, soft top type or helicopters.


All need a different approach including the complication of scale.


All further complicated by the environment in which the model is finished. Out of the factory, in the


Afrikan desert, Germany, Afganistan, Iraq and Britain as WW11. Each has a different need which


for me dictates the approach.


One thing which amazes me is the number of different techniques which we all use and adapt as


our own means. On top of the above is the method adopted dictated by the type of media used plus


also brush or airbrush. Not surprising that this is a fascinating hobby.


I loved watching Flory, when I started out, doing his tutorials which I learnt a lot from and thought


that is it. Then went off and adapted and developed these to my own way of working.


Laurie