I am doing the Tamiya German WESPE, and I want to do a camo scheme with a winter top coat. What is the best way to apply this (i.e. by hand, airbrush)? Is there an article somewhere that gives a few ideas?. Thanks everyone.

There have been a couple of threads about this. Try the search. Lots of good info.

Personally, I like to use the airbrush for the camo. I use heavily thinned coats of white acrylic. I can make the layers transparent and give the illusion of a worn whitewash. This way the base coat will show through. So some areas will show heavy wear (more basecoat showing through) and you can even mask around insignia if your refernce photos show this.

Then, I will go and do some washes and dry brush in the basecoat color for some weathering.

I know you will have some people who use a brush to remove the still wet paint. In my opinion, it's hard to replicate the brush strokes in small scale.

I have a Tamiya Marder III that I'm pleased with that I used the airbrushed whitewash. Have to get motivated to finish it! Need to assemble the Fruil track I have for it. Kind of liek jewelry making!

Steve

I appreciate the help, Steve.

Thanks

Hi Chris,
I´m currently doing a Panzer IV ausf G in an winter scheme, my method for this is really simple.
first, aply a base coat of the color you want;
then, aply the white camo, but in very thin coats in some places let the base coat show through; both using an airbrush;
secondly, drybrush using the base coat on all edges and high points, or wherever you want to weather, try to use some reference for it;
Make a wash and an overall overspray of a color of muddy.

My method is almost the explained by sniper, I suggest you to try and see what works best for you.
Cheers

No problem. To be honest, I was really intimidated about doing a whitewash vehicle at first. Then I gave it a try and really loved what was happening. A bit of trial and error and now the problem is I want to do every vehicle like this!

I say just have fun and experiment. If it goes horribly wrong, you can always re-paint it in the base color and start over.

I think the key is to have very thin paint and a way to apply it with some control and evenly.

Hey, are you going to be doing Tamiya's new Marder when it comes out?

Steve

Of course, Steve. When the new Marder comes out I will be first in line.

I got some other advice from a local friend telling me to do a whitewash. I am gonna try both methods. I have another kit that I want to try the winter camo out on.

Thanks for being so helpful.

This is how I tackle the white wash:

I first do all the base paintings
Then seal with future or another clear coating
Once the coating is dried up, I apply layers of white
then wait for another one hour or so.
I then use a brush and wet it with thinner and just brush away the washed out part, so the base will show through...

By the way, if you like to add some snow, baking soda is very nice.

HTH

This is the method that my friend referred me too. Gonna give it a try.

Thanks Y'all

The answer to all your problems

Check out this link for pictures and a full explanation

http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/thread?forumid=110741&messageid=1031688277

Thanks for the link Plasticbattle Some very great ideas for doing winter camo I'm still trying to be brave enough to do a winter paint job on an IS2
Chad #:-)

Thanks for this link. This is a great article. I will have to try it on my panther G.