I was just wondering which colors do you use on different vehicles for scratches. I mean the base colour that is supposed to show when the top coat is scratched.

WW II U.S. ??
WW II German ??
WW II Russian
Modern U.S. ??
Modern Soviet ??
etc...

Thanks in advance for any help given

Hisham

i like to go with black and burnt umber for deep scratches , and as for camo say german yellow with a red brown and green camo on top , the red brown and green would have the yellow scratches, and the yellow base coat would have a black and burnt umber mix and a lighter shade of the base yellow, anything else i use lighter or darker shades of the base colour and sometimes buff for really light scratches, hope this isnt to confusing . cheers tony.

I try to represent different effects with chips:

- chips that don´t go beyond the paint but only slighty scratch it: I paint them a lighter base colour; or simply the base colour over the areas of secundary camouflage colours: for example I´ll paint dark yellow chips over the green and brown areas in a german WWII tri-tonal como scheme and a lighter dark yellow over the dark yellow areas.

- chips that reach the primer coat I paint that primer colour.

- chipping to the bare metal: dark browns.

And for the scruffing of the dust and dirt -not really chips- I paint a slighty darker base colour.

I find myself more comfortable doing the chipping and other weathering techniques in various steps and go back and forth with it through the weathering as it get more realistic results for me.

Read Paint Chip Fever on this page

http://missing-lynx.com/rareworld.htm

for scratches i use a lighter version of the base coat to represent damages paint ang the vellejo german black brown for the metal showing. here is a great example of this technique. not mine but i wish!!


here's the ful picture article. read it its AMAZING!!!!!!!

http://www.planetarmor.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4418

I usually go with panzer grey for general work (looks good on dunkelgelb) and flat black for darker surfaces - but looking at the photo above makes me want to revise my methods!

On light surfaces pencil marks look pretty good, if you don't mind the shine of the graphite. A little flat coat cures that.