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Acrylic Shader Set from Citadel
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Posted: Friday, February 22, 2019 - 03:34 AM UTC
Looks like some beautiful work there James.

Myself I would be tempted to put just a tiny bit of one of the brown shaders over the decals to tone down the brightness of the white.

Also consider instead, the use of some pastels to add "dust" to the entire vehicle and blend things together even more. After a nice dry coat of Matte Clear is applied the pastels can be "scrubbed' into that lightly textured surface to become a near permanent coating.
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Posted: Friday, March 01, 2019 - 12:36 AM UTC
Another small job of wood shading using the Citadel brown shader over Tamiya dark yellow:

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Posted: Saturday, March 02, 2019 - 10:18 AM UTC

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Looks like some beautiful work there James.

Myself I would be tempted to put just a tiny bit of one of the brown shaders over the decals to tone down the brightness of the white.

Also consider instead, the use of some pastels to add "dust" to the entire vehicle and blend things together even more. After a nice dry coat of Matte Clear is applied the pastels can be "scrubbed' into that lightly textured surface to become a near permanent coating.


Thanks for the compliment and the suggestion. The white doesn't bother me as much as the green I used. It appears too light and too bright to me. I think a brown wash and some dust would help in both cases. But right now, I have temporarily shelved the kit to finish another one that had been on my bench for a while.
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Posted: Saturday, March 02, 2019 - 11:27 PM UTC
Sounds good!
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Posted: Saturday, March 02, 2019 - 11:57 PM UTC

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Looks like some beautiful work there James.

Myself I would be tempted to put just a tiny bit of one of the brown shaders over the decals to tone down the brightness of the white.

Also consider instead, the use of some pastels to add "dust" to the entire vehicle and blend things together even more. After a nice dry coat of Matte Clear is applied the pastels can be "scrubbed' into that lightly textured surface to become a near permanent coating.


Thanks for the compliment and the suggestion. The white doesn't bother me as much as the green I used. It appears too light and too bright to me. I think a brown wash and some dust would help in both cases. But right now, I have temporarily shelved the kit to finish another one that had been on my bench for a while.


Hi James,

Looks good! It needs to be matte-coated of course, but to tone down the white & green and generally blend the colours you might want to crack open the airbrush and shoot a very thinned coat of Tamiya acrylic Buff over the whole thing. I'm talking thinned maybe 10:1 thinner:paint, so it only gives the barest hint of a dusty tint - if you see it going on as visible colour it isn't thinned enough! The effect is to harmonise the colours without altering them. Test it first on some painted scrap to get the hang of it before attacking your Panther...
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