Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - 03:40 AM UTC
True Earth has just published their first book, Mighty Cats vol. 1, and covers all aspects of finishing AFV models.
The book is printed in hardcover, A4 size and has 68 pages of photos and bilingual (Italian/English) text.

It deals mainly with the enhance of shape and details, with varying degrees of weathering.

The depicted tanks have been chosen in function of the type of colouring, providing advices on how to treat monochromatic and camouflaged models, both with brush and airbrush techniques, and the combination of various products to obtain chromatically balanced and pleasant results.

There are fully illustrated tutorials and explanations on how to achieve an appropriate combination of colours, filters and dirtying.

Some different finishing techniques are covered :
The three steps method
The balanced method
The all-filter method
The contrast method

Within the main tutorials, there are also several mini-tutorials on metal rendition, tracks, blending effects, easy decals application, and various methods for earth dirt or dust.
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I have ordered and used a few of their products, and I have to say for the most part I am very happy with how well I can get faded three tone German camo. It did take a lot of practice runs as it is somewhat a departure from current methods.
JUN 28, 2016 - 07:44 PM
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