Onto the tilt canvas. It's not one of my favourite parts of the original Valiant resin model as it's a bit shabby and rough, but I did't fancy remaking it.
After masking off the rest of the truck, I started with a couple of light airbrushed base layers light olives...
It's been my habit to work into my model canvas tilts using conte crayons and powders for tarpaulin type effect, but this time I thought I'd try something different. I got out my Vallejo Game Color Washes and started laying down thin washes of greens and sepias to emphasise the folds in the canvas...
Once I got the shadow areas done I then started picking out the highlights with conte pencil...
And then I used a soft brush (or a eye makeup foam stick) to blend back the highlight into the shadow areas...
And finally I picked out some of the deeper folds in the material with a darker wash and some inks...
Finally I gave the cover a coat of Humbrol Matt Varnish. Job done and I think the washes turned out not too bad, especially at a distance.
That sorted it's onto the model's base. I've shown my technique for doing this a few times now so I won't go through this again...
Well, that's nearly it. I just have to do some touching up here and there and I want to add a bit more mud to the truck itself before I give the model a final coat of matt varnish.
Mighty impressive technique sir :)
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for visiting my blog and for your kind words... I think this post illustrates my 'suck it and see' approach - sometimes I get a result and sometimes I don't (and have to start again)! My effects still aren't very subtle - you could say they are somewhat theatrical - but this seems to suit the war-gaming 'look' (by chance) which is intended to be looked at from a certain distance. I don't think I would get away with this for display quality models, but that doesn't bother me as I like 'theatrical'. :)
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