Hi everyone i am looking for some advice, i am painting a 200mm figure by Maurice Corry 12ss mg 42 gunner with Italian camo. I paint in oils over acrylic. I have airbrushed the camo and it has i very fine feathered edge, now i need to shade and highlight with oils, the question is do i try to keep the feathered edge or a tight edge, i know it will be difficult either way,all the best roy.
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theBaron
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I'd start by deciding which effect you want, and then working toward that goal. Does the 1:1 version have a feathered or crisp edge? Whichever the real thing has, that's what I'd shoot for, and adjust my technique. Just my "mustard", as the Germans say.
Prost!
Brad
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Brad
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I think the best thing would be/would have been (depending on how you did the airbrushing) to do most of the shading work with the AB, since that would ensure the edges would be as evenly done as possible.
If you do need to do the shading work with oils and you want to strive to keep the soft edge stippling with a small brush might be the way to go, or you could try quickly blocking in the highlight and shadow colours and then carefully softening the edge by stippling over with a large, soft brush (wiping often to prevent transfer). Either way is going to be a pain to do I'm sure!
How soft is the edge on Italian camo BTW? I don't know if it varied much but I thought it was pretty hard-edged at 1:1, even if it's slightly soft it would tighten up at 'scale distance'. If we imagine the feathering spans about 2mm on the real thing that translates to approx. a quarter mil at this scale. That's pretty close to a hard edge.
Einion
If you do need to do the shading work with oils and you want to strive to keep the soft edge stippling with a small brush might be the way to go, or you could try quickly blocking in the highlight and shadow colours and then carefully softening the edge by stippling over with a large, soft brush (wiping often to prevent transfer). Either way is going to be a pain to do I'm sure!
How soft is the edge on Italian camo BTW? I don't know if it varied much but I thought it was pretty hard-edged at 1:1, even if it's slightly soft it would tighten up at 'scale distance'. If we imagine the feathering spans about 2mm on the real thing that translates to approx. a quarter mil at this scale. That's pretty close to a hard edge.
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This Camo is hard edged,in hindsight it would have been easier to hard edge mask the pattern with Silly putty and h/light and Shade with the airbrush thus keeping each colour separately shaded within its border.
You could go back now and free hand by brush the edges and then add high and low lights with oils once the camo is sorted.
Carlis
You could go back now and free hand by brush the edges and then add high and low lights with oils once the camo is sorted.
Carlis
