Building MG, The Express Way

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STEP 3 - Touch Up
Use low pressure and re-spray the original color on the nips. No masking is required. Just be careful of over-spraying to the other color parts.

Of course, I did not stop there. I need some color gradation. Max Technique is a pre-shading technique and it cannot be applied here. I am using post-shading here, a little trick that I learned from painting figures.

I got myself 2 more paint mixtures for the shadow colors, earth:black (1:1) and white:wood brown (1:1).

I just airbrush the shadow to the kit on low pressure.

Do not worry about screw up. The next step is to mist the original color back to the kit.
The earth color that I use is a flat color. It has rough surface and will not panel well with oil and easier to scratch off. I coat a layer of clear on it to make it smooth.

Note that there are tons of time saved on masking.

While waiting for the paint to dry, I took a break and then hand painted some details on the core block etc.

I only used 2 colors, Silver and Gold.

These steps took me about 3 hours to complete. (Excluding painting the Core Block)


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Document Date : 18.01.2006


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