Allright, you have this 1/32 Trumpeter Wildcat painted in USN Blue-gray and top and USN Light Gray on bottom surfaces.
How would you weather it; using what techniques and what shades?
Aesome build!!! I would preshaded it first then using mixtures of the blue toned with white to post shade then add oil and exhaust streaks.
How do you preshade? Are you talking about aibrushing the model solid white and then aibrushing thin dark black strips along the the seams/panel lines? The purpose is to make the final color coat transluscent enough to show a bit of dark light-dark contrast underneath.
I think I saw something like that in the context of building a Bf-109.
And oh, if somebody knows a really good publication showing the Wildcat in great detail with lots of photos let me know.
monster for me i would do two things. first i would use a lighter color such as aluminum or silver leading edges to show some wear i use darker colors to replicate stains on the lighter colors… then i would use pastel chalks and show grime, exhaust and gun use. really simple yet efficient stuff to do.
joe
Would have been easier to have weathered before you reached this stage of completion. Washes only work well on glossy surfaces & it looks as though you are past that stage. About the only option would be pastels or some dry brushing to simulate paint chipping at this point. If it were mine, I’d leave it as is, it is a very nice build.
One of the best references for the Wildcat is Bert Kinzey’s “F4F Wildcat Detail in Scale” book, vol. 65. For the modeler, this book is really all you need for a Wildcat.
Regards, Rick
I’ll second that. Excellent reference material for the Wildcat.
Paul
You dont even need to to paint it white forst, just hit all the paels with your flatest black
i’m with rick, a little to far along it seems. later.
It looks like you a bit far along to do much weathering. Maybe you could use some chalk pastels to do some shading, but it looks pretty good to me as it is. If your going to weather it, don’t overdo the effect, I think weathering looks best when done subtly. Maybe just some exhaust stains, gun blast stains and some light paint chipping.
hope this helps.
Looks great the way it is! If you insist on weathering, maybe just some exhaust stains (brown/black mix of pastel chalk dust) and maybe some very faint oil stains in back of the open engine cowls. How much weathering you do depends on what you think the history of the a/c is and how much action you think it has seen.
Guys, thanks for all the tips but that’s not my model in the picture. I borrowed it from one of the reviews on the Internet. My Wildcat is still unopened in the box (actually I looked into the box but that’s all).