I need help and advise on how to get the camouflage close to what is on the box. I had some advice to start with dark colors first. So i repainted the model. I’m not good with camouflage, i rarely try to do it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I’m not an armor guy, but that was most likely a field applied white wash so you have more degrees of freedom. Do you plan on airbrushing the white?
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Really not that good with a airbrush, Really don’t have a plan yey, been thinking it over.
I suggest that you use a small brush, perhaps around a #1 or so. Do rough small strokes, around the size that a 1/35 crew member would be making. You want it to look rough. You might even want to put on the markings first, then paint around them, just like the real crews often did.
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I’ve seen a few galleries for this model, including an excellent build log on the FSM forums by @ricardoscouts
None of them are going for the white washed look though. If it were me, and I wanted to attempt it for the first time without an airbrush, I would:
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Get a pencil and draw the rough centrelines of the “blobs”
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Take a drybrush or sponge brush, pick up the paint, wipe off excess and start blotting/dabbing your white/off-white paint along your pencil lines.
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Try and keep your blots narrow at first, until you have your pencil marks covered up
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Expand your blot pattern as required to close up the spacing between your white blobs
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The dabbing/blotting should give you a fairly rough application, while the drybrush or sponge should keep the edges slightly feathered
I warn you though, I have no experience attempting this effect
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When I did this winter white wash on a GREY Pz III in 1941. I went with rough white washed stripes as would have been applied in the field to break up the tank silhouette.
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Thank you for the helpful information
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Thank you for the helpful information, i will have to try this method
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I would guess, either a washable white was paint (e.g. from ATOM) and/or if you want to achieve the hard outline effect use panzer putty or a similar masking putty. Should give you the desired effect.
Edit: You can then break up the hard edges slightly with water and a slightly stiffer brush since the paint stays slightly reactive.
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You could also try doing the whitewash with oil paints, as those are quite forgiving due to their very slow drying time. Any mess ups are easily removed with a thinner or turpentine soaked brush. It’s more easy to achieve that worn and diluted look using oils. Just be very careful of handling your model during the drying time.
Perhaps you could do silly putty ‘worms’ to mask of the sand then shoot white over it. Seems like a good candidate for that.