I'm building some 1/72nd scale modern British armour as a break from my usual fare of aircraft and have got the point where I've got to paint them. I'm planning to use Humbrol's 155 and Revell's 9 for the green and black camouflage colours respectively and apply some simple preshading to the upper surfaces using lightened versions of the same base colours.

I always undercoat my aircraft models using Halford's white aerosol, however, some of the articles I've seen on armour modelling seem to suggest using a black undercoat. Would this work or would it eliminate the effect of the preshading and is there any other simple advice people can offer me.

Thanks

Richard

Ive also seen where folks use black, I have yet to try it. For myself, I use grey primer.

I to use either grey or black primer. white is not too god primer for armor ;-)

and with dark primer you dont need to preshade, just wash and drybrush, and on the end add pastels as a dust.