Okay so here are some pictures of my attempt at this tri colour early camouflage. I Have in the past used different masking techniques and then spraying with the airbrush with spotty success with this method. This time I have decided to hand paint the pattern with a paint brush. I have held back from doing it this way because of getting a solid coat this way is difficult, either because the paint would be to thick, thereby destroying the scale illusion and to thin, again problematic from selling the model as a miniature of the real thing. I have seen other modeller's do this but I have held off till now. This time though I girded myself for a lengthy process of several thin coats. These many thin applications take more work but will give me more control and there won't be any issues of paint brush strokes showing 3 dimensionally as would happen if I used a thick paint. I do hope to hide any imperfections behind a flat coat followed by filters and weathering/dirt.
I was thinking about what paint to use and decided to use a water based acrylic gouache, the same stuff I use for my box top illustrations.
I mixed my colours using the Panzer Tracts colour chips in the second volume that covers the Panzer one. These are very dark compared to the usual colours one see modellers depict, and the yellow is much less yellow- being more ochre in hue.
The yellow is enamel from before, and then I start with the green. At first I used a white pencil marker to draw the pattern, but abandoned this opting to use the thin paint and brush to do the same task all at the same time.
