Over the past days I was also working on the Ka-Mi in parallel with the JSU, mostly adding weathering and balancing the contrast. First I have airbrushed a very thin Flat Earth […]
Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 10: Weathering and pigments
Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 9: Oil mapping and streaking
One of the last step I have been adding to the Ka-Mi is oil mapping. I am not sure if this is the correct name for this technique, but I use it when referring to it, […]
Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 8: Streaking
I was still thinking about how far to go with the weathering of Ka-Mi, when I decided to test AK interactive’s new products. One that I have picked up during my most recent […]
Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 7: Chipping
I am now in the final phases of this build – weathering. This usually means that things go extremely slowly, mostly because I use oil paints for lot of my weathering techniques […]
Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 6: Barrels, exhausts & decals
I have added few touches to KaMi some day before my last week’s trip, mostly dealing l with the details. First I painted the barrels of the two machine guns. For this […]
Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 5: Dry-brushing, filters, washes & tracks
I have spent last few evenings adding few touches to the Ka-Mi. To tone down the contrast created by preshading and highlighting I applied oil filter. I used my trusty Winsor & Newton […]
Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 4: Second highlights
The last paint layer that I plan to apply is the second highlight, to increase the contrast and give the model little bit more “depth”. For this layer I needed another shade […]
Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 3: First highlights
Tamiya offers quite a wide range of grey colour paints in their acrylics range, so I had to choose which one to choose for the following painting steps. I decided to use IJN Grey XF-75 […]
Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 2: Base Coat & Preshading
So, having added last few pieces to the vehicle I decided to give it some paint today (or rather yesterday as it is past midnight already). To save time I decided to skip […]
Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 1: Construction
(UPDATED on April 3, 2012 – added some more corrections) Here comes another recent inspiration of mine. Having seen this model built by two of my friends (and both very nice models) […]
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