Painting & weathering scale models: Aircrafts base color paint. Navy F-4J (HD).

[@icervoid]

Incredibly smooth, clear and detailed. CONGRATULATIONS. For me is a pain to obtain this but i struggle until perfection.

[@northdot9]

Thank you for taking the time to show the built up, layer after layer. Great work.

[@jerryvolpini7987]

Excellent work! I've been experimenting with similar techniques, altering things based on scale, with varying results. I have tried hairspray, salt, sponges and a pre-shaded 'mottling' effect simular to yours (among others) Showing wear & tear adds realism to your model but duplicating the weathered, 'mottled' finish of a real aircraft gives the most realistic results. Well done!

[@keithharris4620]

Wow excellent video, very informative, especially as I’m colourblind

[@TheCimbrianBull]

Great video! I will try this technique on an A-4B Skyhawk. :-)

[@orionspainting9875]

why are you not making videos anymore. these are amazing. soooo good

[@madcowrebel4216]

Extremely helpful and enjoyable videos you have! Thank you for sharing

[@Domzdream]

That's so coincidentally weird. When I was about 16 I used the exactly same same jar with the same lid, to hold my thinner and/or turpentine.

[@jameswatt2166]

Great video. Thankyou

[@masterfash]

Really helpful thank you :)

[@Plydrms]

I let the thin set glue wick into the joints. The glue stains the seams, but they disappear when I paint the model. Recently, I used some MRP lacquer based paint and the glue seams are visible. Is this because its lacquer based, or do some paints let the glue joints show through?...thanks-

[@monkey555500]

great tutorial video,thanx

[@eduardviska]

Super emonstration of coloring. Merci.

[@deanc.5984]

I dont have airbrush, just paint brushes🤣😭😂👍🏼

[@billgump5903]

you just skip to finished product at the end. don't understand how you achieved final look. do have another video showing how you actually weathered that f 4

[@PandaXs1]

those are called decals lol. I'm pretty sure all he did was let the paint dry.

[@Beherman]

Thank you so much for sharing!!! What about when the painting should be white? How do we make the same effect? BR and thanks again.

Bernardo Hernández . Thanks! It's the same technic for white color but make your mottling with medium grey. step 1: base color white. step 2: mottling grey. step 3: spray with very diluated white.

Thanks ! With white base, the result is a little bit similar. It depends of quantity of black mottling.

[@Drewsmodels]

For Navy aircraft, do you prime the bottom with gray as well (if the plane has a white bottom and gull grey top)? After the primer, paint the white, mottle with darker grey, then mist over again with white? Thanks!

PrincipalDrew's Scale Models: yes that's it. You're right!

[@renzorocchi367]

Fantastic!

[@johntheman5720]

Very nice!

[@cinewillp6391]

Having climbed into a 1980 vintage F-15 .then a USAF F-4 when i was stationed at OSAN AB Korea.I could not believe how beat to hell the finish was.chipping everywhere.

[@user-kk3nk5zf9s]

Should you paint before or after finishing building the model?

Build maximum except some final parts. I glue canopy, fuel tank, landing gear and some details after painting the whole aircraft.

[@mcastre3]

Love this video! Question: how are you achieving such small spray lines from the airbrush when mottling? I can’t seem to get my brush to paint smaller lines. I tried different size needles but no effect

I use 0,15 or 0,2 mm needle with very diluated paint. About 60% - 70% of thinner. Low pressure.

[@hl1796]

with that high ammount of thinner in Step 4 , i guess we have to turn the pressure higher than normal paint mix..

[@egamez1]

Great video! What kind of paint did you use?

I use acrylics. Tamiya or Gunze or Mr. Paint.

[@Drewsmodels]

Nice! I will be giving this a try with a F-8 Crusader soon. Have you tried the 'black basing' technique? If so, how does it compare to the gray basing? Thanks! Drew

Thank you ! For my opinion, black basing gives a more darker result. You must balance it with more white mottling.

[@Drewsmodels]

Makes sense! May I ask what color of paint you use for your US Navy aircraft? Brand? Take care!!

Light gull grey from Gunze or MrPaint (mottling white). Love Mr Paint result. Extremely fine, ready to use , satin finish, dry quickly. Cheers. Fred

[@Drewsmodels]

well, both are not readily accessible to me so I'll have to stick to Tamiya and Vallejo Model Air paints. Thanks Fred!

Ok. Tamiya is great! I don't like Vallejo. Too stick and "glue". Add more Vallejo thinner if you use it.

[@jimwhite613]

May I ask what Airbrush model you are using?

I use Harder & Steinbeck airbrush. Model Evolution or Infinity.

[@jobkolsteeg8871]

how many bars do you use for the airbrush

about 1,5.

[@Myoldaccount-mu7of]

What does mottling do?

A lot of shades in color on the whole surface and more realistic and "alive " model.

[@Myoldaccount-mu7of]

@ Thanks!

[@enki1598]

Очень познавательно!

[@charlestodt740]

Hellou , Do you don't use a mask when airbrush?

Sometimes for some camo I use Panzer Putty but generaly free hand.

[@icervoid]

primer / thinner what proportion ?

I use primer on spray (Tamiya Or Mr Hobby or Vallejo). For paint, mix about 60% thinner and 40% paint. Sometimes more thinner for transparent effects. It depends of texture of paint too. Aspect of half creamed milk.

[@rivazza68]

Hmmm... you got good pointers but how come you just jumped to the finished model just like that?!?!

[@chrisroberts6043]

Because he doesn't want to give away all his secretes.

[@CoreReaper1]

Rest of the F’ing Owl...

[@PandaXs1]

"Aircrafts base color paint" as the title says lol

[@unicornwarhammer1926]

Show me a photo of an in use F4 Phantom that looks like that. Over weathered. This is an aircraft in the us armed forces, not some banana republic tank/afv

[@chestercrowley7312]

Unicorn Warhammer even though the aircraft are mechanically maintained and a wash job was required every month, both gull grey and the ghost grey paint jobs showed their age very fast.

[@Drewsmodels]

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/F-4B_VMFA-314_1968.jpg Photographed in 1968 over Vietnam

[@Drewsmodels]

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/F-4B_VF-111_dropping_bombs_on_Vietnam.jpg/1280px-F-4B_VF-111_dropping_bombs_on_Vietnam.jpg Vietnam 1971

[@skinniestfatman5641]

@@Drewsmodels don't think people realise how much the sea air and sun has on aircraft lol, great pics btw

[@freddy5713]

No offense but u kinda need to work on ur music choice wtf is this song XD

[@johns.7609]

Frederick Rathe-Oeen use your volume switch.

[@westers1514]

You're not very cultured, are you Frederick. No offense

[@rincobill3459]

a lot of work useless. light shadow can be done after the painting. just to joke with airbrush a little more