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A bit more of a uniform color now.







Anyone have any idea what I'm up to?

MrChef wrote: ↑Mon Aug 25, 2025 7:30 am Anyone have any idea what I'm up to?

Building a toy tank? Looking good. It’s nice to start painting.

Toy
Just like my wife................."instead of playing toys, why dont you ".........

Me............"why dont you "

Its ongoing training !

Lot of Grey going on mate, seems to have the right look and that svelte barrel certainly changes the look to the positive.
Carry on that man

Looks very good, I like it!

Your build is coming along very nicely

Hey thanks for the support guys

Well I said I was gonna try something new and here it is. Black Basing Technique. It's a technique thats been around forever. Usually used for aircraft modelers but caught on with the mini guys. It's not the traditional pre-shading painting all the lines and shadows. Ya just prime the whole model in black so at the very least you'll have a shadow effect.

Then using the base color and other colors if you choose you spray a marbling pattern with random squiggles. The more random the better. Then with a well thinned basecoat you slowly spray and build up layers until you decide youre done.

I sprayed at 10 PSI, 70% thinner with a.3 needle for the marbling. Lowered the pressure to 8PSI and thinned the basecoat to 80% thinner and used a .5 needle and just broad strokes layered the paint till I was happy. 2 things here, I could still add more layers if I wanted to and if I wasnt happy with it I could just continue heavier with the basecoat and paint the regular way. BUT I really like how this is coming out. It provides a worn and weathered look before I've even started to weather it!

I experimented with several different colors for the marbling and found I liked the basecoat color as well as highlights with plain white.

The Basecoat I wanted was a RAL 8000 so I mixed Tamiya 4 parts XF4 then 2 parts XF52 and 1 part XF 60. Thinned with lacquer thinner because it just sprays so silky smooth and I am working at a low pressure. Anyway less talk-



First I sprayed XF 60 randomly



Then I sprayed white and highlighted parts



Then the homebrew RAL8000







It's a pretty close RAL 8000 clone I checked my paint chip from the S13 Tiger project. It's lighter but for modeling purposes that's a good thing because when I add all the weathering it'll get darker.

I'm looking forward to the turret next for sure.

This will be a cool technique to use for the Stug next since it'll have those flat plates and angles. perfect to break up the real estate.

Thats a cool trick mate, like it.
Might have a go at that method myself one day

Thank you MrChef! Hmm... A quick Google search of "Black Basing Technique" yields choices of YouTube videos (some with good advice, but annoying silliness). I am eager to try it!

Herr Dr. Professor wrote: ↑Tue Aug 26, 2025 3:20 pm Thank you MrChef! Hmm... A quick Google search of "Black Basing Technique" yields choices of YouTube videos (some with good advice, but annoying silliness). I am eager to try it!

Hey there HDP, I watched several videos on the technique but this one shows a tank and comapres the two different pre-shading methods. I know I'll be able to refine it even more so this is kind of a practice for the Stug III group build. But for a first time its got some cool effects that add depth and wear and heck with any subsequent weathering It'll get even more dirty the way I like it or I can just cover stuff up



Thanks for checking in