Hello everybody
During WWII, land-based aircrft ‘birds’ were affected by sun. Worn paint was the caracteristic in this aircraft…so how do I get this effect in my planes. I have 25 diferent schemes Corsairs, but no one with this caracteristic.
Please help, best regards.
some views from my town, I am new here and excuse my English.[:D]
http://www.patzcuaromexico.com/
http://www.michoacan-travel.com/fiprotur/eng_patz_album.htm
good to have you here[#welcome].
there will probably be a lot of tips coming to this post,so i’ll get it started.
i start with a pre shade,which is airbrushing all of the panel lines black or raw umber,then fill in the area between them with the finish color,getting lighter on the coat at the edges so that you can just lightly see the darker color of the panel lines,after that i mix a little bit of white with the regular plane color and airbrush very light and random streaks in the direction of the airflow,front of wing to back and top of fuselage to bottom…after that,lighten it a little more and repeat it even lighter
finally i use a very well thinned BUFF color to "dust the model a little bit ,also in the direction of airflow,it kind of helps blend everything together.
do a panel line wash after all this ,then airbrush the exhaust stains and gun stains,add chipped paint effects etc…
that’s pretty much how I do it too. But for that specific sun/heat bleached effect I take the main body color and thin it about 1:2 paint to thinner, then add a drop or so of white, (for O.D. greens I fade them out with yellow instead of white, or a drop of yellow and a drop of wwhite as well) The reason you would want it so thin, is if it was thinned normally there would be a definite demarcation line where the lighter and darker shades of the same color met.
I then lightly dust areas where the sun would hit, or heat would build up like the tops of engine cowls and toward the leading edges of thewings until I JUST notice it lightening. I let it dry and if I feel it is still a bit too dark, I spray a little more with the lighter color and let it dry. Just repeat this until you like the way it looks.
After that I randomly lightly spot areas on the fuselage and wings to get a varied tone to it. You don’t want to put too much of the very thin paint down… just enough to get a slightly shadowy effect.
I enjoyed the pictures of your town, I will definitely look into it for my next vacation to Mexico, I have been to Cabo San Jose and Mexico City, along with a lot of smaller towns… but the scenery where you are is beatiful! It reminds me a bit of a part of Colombia that my wife lived…
Your English is fine! [:)]