Saturday, March 28, 2009

Painting German Armour Pt. 2

The coat of Dunkelgeb is now on. This is a very specific shade of yellow that was used by the Germans for summer camo in WW2. I used Tamiya XF-60 to paint the Tiger. I cannot stress this enough, wear a respirator when using anything other than craft acrylics. You cannot get this color in craft paints, take my word for it =(
I painted it completely but left enough black showing as to make it look worn and shadowed. The next step is doing green and brown lines.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Painting German Armour Pt.1

It's finally here! My Tamiya late war Tiger is together. Now as we all know the painting of a model is when the character of it comes out. The first thing I did was give a base coat of black. This will give the model's lines a deeper look. Also, it will add depth to the zimmerit. I used Decoart black. The next step will be to add the distinctive dunkelgeb, dark yellow(which was very hard to find).