VLOG: Tank War Fast Paint Project Part 4
October 10, 2017 by thisisazrael
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Nice video. it surprised me that you didn’t use masking for the pattern. I’ve never painted camouflage on my miniatures, so doing it by hand it’s interesting.
Layer by layer I don’t like the look of it, but the final steps made me change my mind.
Great series so far.
I’ve seen many many people masking the model before adding camo, and they are correct to do so. However, I find that the overspray caused by not masking is fairly minimal and is usually hidden by weathering. If I’m doing a scale model then I will probably mask is some manner. But on wargaming mini’s I’m happy to live with what overspray there is 🙂
masking is great for sharp edges free hand is great for feathered edges each has their place depending on the look you after. @kamaron
great vid, thanks @johnlyons 🙂
Looking good so far. I don’t fancy being in your place when it comes to dotting the pattern on. Are you going to use a toothpick to do it?
ahha the last couple of minutes answered my own question, that’ll teach me to go off half cocked
I’m really liking the series of videos great job.
Cheers John, am looking forward to the rest of the video.
I don’t know how true to life the unmasked lines are between the colors, but I think that the soft transitions make a better looking paint job on a model. Nature has few natural hard lines. That is, unless you are doing those crazy WWI US Navel patterns using Dazzle Camo. That would be very interesting to see on a tabletop, though I don’t see many WWI tabletop navel miniature games, although I am sure they are out there.
Germans used both hard edged and soft edged camo, a lot of it came down to who applied it and when
…and what was on hand. The factory applied patterns were allways applied via airbrush. When the front line units applied them on their own it was everything possible. Who had the equipment available used airbrushes and who hadn’t used paintbrushes. The latter patterns sometimes had harder outlines sometimes not. Because it was recommended to soften the edges of the painted areas. But as it often went… some did some did not.
Great video, really helpful! All I need to do now is get my airbrushing to the point where it can lay down this sort of pattern, rather than semi-random splodges!
they are looking great john.
@johnlyons, a very informative video. It`s nice to hear someone explain (with a bit of history thrown in) the steps used to camouflage vehicles, i used to (back in my younger day`s) think most camouflage was stupid and a little silly. As i got older i looked into it a bit more and come to understand why camouflage patterns looked like they did, and with people like you throwing in a bit of history it all becomes a lot more clear. I`m gonna save these V-logs, and use them to help me when i get to doing my bolt action… Read more »
Out yourself in the place of the poor bugger that had to spray the cam in the field. Just been handed 10 litres of paint a spray gun and told to cam the tank up. all the while worried about air or ground attacks. I don’t think he would have been to worried about hard or soft edge cam and such like. I’m betting if u got a close up view it would probably be a bit messy. More pristine when it came out of the factory pre cammed. (I think I just made that word up???? Anyway that’s my… Read more »
Sorry new keyboard. That should have started with *Put
Enjoying the series! Great stuff. @johnlyons, I’m wondering what size needle you are using in your airbrush? There’s no way can get that fine with the one I’ve got.
It’s a 0.3 needle I believe 🙂
Excellent, thanks for that : )