ndicki
Charter Member 2016
Plastic. All model kits, as opposed to desk models, which don't have enough detail.
The trick is never use a brush, but a very high quality airbrush. After painting and fading the paintwork, varnish the model with acrylic gloss varnish, decals, then more gloss varnish, and then washes of diluted Humbrol paint which you gently wipe off, followed by a layer of semi-matt or matt varnish. It's a bit more complex than that, but that's the basic technique.
The trick is never use a brush, but a very high quality airbrush. After painting and fading the paintwork, varnish the model with acrylic gloss varnish, decals, then more gloss varnish, and then washes of diluted Humbrol paint which you gently wipe off, followed by a layer of semi-matt or matt varnish. It's a bit more complex than that, but that's the basic technique.
