Fading has now been added to the paintwork using small amounts of XF 21 sky mixed with the two main colours. Slowly adding more sky to add interesting effects to the colours. Once done a blast of gloss went on to seal it all in and prepare for decals.
Usually when building modern Japanese subjects I will use uniform decals for any figures I want to add but as I didn't have enough for the two in the kit I reverted back to painting the camo. Vallejo paints were used for this and I started with a base of 315 light mud. The green was a mix of 968 flat green and a small drop of light mud. The brown was 312 leather belt and again a drop of light mud & the black was 005 black and 862 black grey.
Careful study of pictures sorted out the pattern so with a fine brush I quickly painted the first figure. Webbing was painted using 327 Italian tank crew and the crew helmet was picked out in 893 US dark green. Black, white & Iraqi sand where also used for shading and highlights. I did have to add a chin strap for the head as well as a band for the goggles so tamiya tape was used.
Nice work, Perhaps I should have tried some of that shading or fading, but the JGSDF Type 16 was my first camo.
ReplyDeleteI started the CSM Romfell today and showed my wife your finished model. What I couldn't fathom is that this was completed back in November 2019 - time is moving too fast. It seemed I just admired this build of yours only recently and then ordered mine and it was 14 months ago.
Cheers Edward glad you like it. I know what you mean by time moving too fast, just had a look back myself at the Romfell build and it seems like only yesterday I started it. Hope you are enjoying your build.
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