After I laid-down the black primer, I went over all the edges with Tamiya Red Brown, thinned-out 3:12 paint to thinner. Sprayed it in a diffused, marbles style. This is like pre-shading, but not, in the sense that the brown isn’t necessarily darker. It’s more like pre-pre highlighting:
Next, I sprayed the inside of all the areas wardened-off by the brown, same diffused, marbles style, using Olive Drab, thinned 3:12 thinner to paint. This is just a foundation, to begin gently bumping up the opacity:
After that, I over-sprayed the brown pre-pre highlighting, using the diffused marbled pattern with the same paint mixture as in the previous step:
Next came the pre-highlighting, I mixed Flat White with Olive Drab, 1:2, and then added 12 drops of thinner, and sprayed over the inside areas, again, marbling the paint on:
After that, I sprayed a blend coat of Olive Drab, thinned 3:12:
And then I highlighted some areas I thought would look nice a bit lighter, same heavily thinned 1:3 Flat White and Olive Drab mix:
And then gave it one more blend coat of thinned Olive drab, and here we are:
So there we go! I’m pretty happy with his this came out. It’s a not boring, relatively monochromatic paint job!
