RE: KV Paint job

Thanks for the input!

The jpeg does not show it very well, but the base color is Mauve (as in
MT),
the spots are actually J.A. Green (dark, dusty green), and the stripes
are
bright green. I chose the mauve and green carefully. But I knew that the
scheme would appear too flat. So I added the bright green stripes. The
other
advantage of this scheme is that it can be repeated on both small and
large
ships. 

Drybrushing: I have tried this, but failed utterly. I guess that I have
too
heavy a hand or use too thick of paints (even if I thin them
substantially).

Washes: I do even worse with washes.

I did plan one more detail to add. I have some blue ink wash that I
planned
to pick out the panels with. The idea is to add a UV-ish cast to the
colors.
I will try it tonight or tommorow and let you know the results (it won't
show up on a .jpeg if I do it right).

The other thing that I may do is to add some shadow to the spots with
black
paint on 2/3rds of each spot (consistant direction). Takes extra time,
but
can be effective. The downside is that spots that hit the outline of the
miniature will not have a shadow. :-/

I am also in the process of adding tiger-ish black stripes to my larger
ESU
ships. I did the Komorov and it came out looking good (to my eyes). But
I
will recieve the same (constructive) criticism, it does not have panels
highlighted.

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net	   
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Bayan Schoonmaker [SMTP:s_schoon@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 12:11 AM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	Re: KV Paint job
> 
> >KV Paint job at
> >http://members.xoom.com/rlyehable/images/ft/shippicts/kvpaint.jpg
> >
> >comments appreciated.
> 
> OK, looks as if you started with a purple base coat, splotched with
black,
> and then finished with green striping. Lurid, but not a bad combo all
> told.
> 
> Here's what I's suggest to spruce it up:
> 
> After applying the base coat, drydrush with a lighter shade to bring
out
> the panels and raised area. Do the same, very carefully, with a grey
on
> the
> black areas. By brushing only the center portion of each black area,
> you'll
> get the sense of depth AND a heightened differentiation between the
two
> colors (the purple and black, that is). If you feel ambitious, you can
> pick
> out individual small panels for contrast in any given area, though I'd
> advise to use a lighter color rather than a darker one for this.
> 
> Toodles.
> 
> Schoon
> 
-----Original Message-----
From:	aebrain@dynamite.com.au [SMTP:aebrain@dynamite.com.au]
Sent:	None
To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject:	Re: KV Paint job

If that's too much work, I've been able to get away with a *subtle*
drybrush
of light grey, regardless of the basic colour. You definitely need
something
to de-camouflage it. At the moment, it's "Standard KraVak Disruptive"
that
works
all too well. The detail is lost in the paint job.

Take a look at the OU ships on my web site. Remember that the basic
model
doesn't
have a heck of a lot of gross detail, it's rather subtle. Then allow for
the
4-colour shapes, white lines, spirals, dots, stripes etc.

eg http://www2.dynamite.com.au/aebrain/FT/OU3A.JPG

Without the grey drybrush, the panels etc were invisible. With it, the
lines
get accented, and the base colour comes through to fool the eye into
thinking
the lighter colour isn't grey.