Tuesday 27 June 2023

IJAAF trainer "orange" & "orange/yellows" in general - pt.2

In this second test, I tried to very roughly replicate the painting process of Japanese trainers and most IJNAF prototypes.
First, I airbrushed Tamiya XF-16 "flat aluminum" over two gray primed spoons to make their surfaces look like "metal".
XF-16 looked great over the gray primer after just one pass.
Then, I applied a coat of Tamiya XF-64 "red brown" to replicate the red/brown primer.


Finally, I airbrushed multiple coats of MrColor 58 and Tamiya X-6, unfortunately with exactly the same results with the "mahogany" primer.
The brown makes everything too dark and it shows through.
Only after many passes MrColor 58 started to look like yellow.
So, all in all, the "yellow/orange over dark bases" tests were all fails.

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