The paint scheme
Having constructed the model (and making a ham fisted attempt at the intakes!) the first step was to decide on the primed yellow/green panel colour. I opted for Vallejo’s Yellow Green (70.954) as the base colour and added small quantities of Vallejo’s Lime Green (70.827) to add some tonal difference. As mentioned above, I was trying to portray an aircraft under heavy maintenance, so wished to depict worn/recently stripped back and freshly painted panels to add some visual interest.
As a side note, I don’t own an airbrush so all of my builds are painted with brushes – I found the best way to portray the primer over the rivets/panel lines was to use a flat brush and employ a dry brushing technique and ‘dab’ the rivet lines/panel lines-slowly building up the colour.
The silver used in Julian’s build was Tamiya Silver Leaf and as I couldn’t get hold of this, I used Mig Ammo Matt Aluminium as the base colour and again, (using metallics from the Mig Ammo Jet Engines Pack) mixed up different tones of this silver base colour for added visual interest.
To further add to the worn metallics look, I sanded individual panels to try to add some variation.
To highlight areas of detail I used a blue/black Mig Ammo pin wash, graphite pencils and AK Weathering Pencils (introduced to me by Geoff at one of his excellent workshops) and sealed this with a gloss varnish and then used a final wash of Flory Models Dark Dirt.
A final coat of matt varnish was used to seal everything.
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