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Category: Tutorial

  • Why Should I Base Metallics? A Tutorial.

    Why Base Metallics? That’s a good question! Some may not even know the technique exists but it’s a very easy thing to do to make your metallics “pop” better – and it’s based on science! The stuff in paint that makes the color is called pigment. The pigment is suspended in a variety of suspensions…

  • Detailed Masking for Airbrushing

    I’m considering this a lesson learned and don’t mind passing this along 🙂 When I started painting the large aquilla on the top deck I was originally going to mask it out and airbrush it in layers. After looking at it for a few minutes I decided to use a brush instead thinking how difficult…

  • Tutorial Time! Chipped Paint Weathering

    TUTORIAL TIME! Biff Gunhed over at Warseer asked about the “stippling”method I use to weather the paintjobs on my vehicles now. I’ve reached that point and made a visual tutorial of how to do it (at least how I do it) I choose a Chaos Black/Scorched Brown as a “primer”, or base color for my…

  • Paint Chipping Tutorial Part II

    I did the base color for both tanks at the same time and I’ll show the second step on the turret of the second tank.Here it is all dabbed up. I used a 20/00 brush for this part – no particular reason, it’s just what I happened to grab. It does happen to help when…