OK, last question (on this thread anyway, you guys are way too helpful to stop asking questions!)
So, just about finished with this build, got a bit of silvering but that's because I didn't gloss it before hand, but that's fine I know what I did there and it's on the underside so not overly visible. Only thing left is the canopy which is drying after being painted with a cocktail stick as masking it was too much of a pia!
Anyway, my question is about the colours, below on the left is the hurricane with Vallejo
Model Air Dark Earth and Dark Green. On the right is a Spitfire with those starter kit acrylics, again in dark earth and dark green:
It's difficult to display on a camera phone, but the contrast is piss poor with the Vallejo colours where as the
Airfix Starter and Humbrol (acrylic and enamel - I have both!) have a much better contrast as the dark earth isn't quite so dark!
I've only done one coat, which whilst not massively thick, is obviously thick enough for one coat in the spray booth, neither model had an undercoat so it was straight onto plastic. In the Hurricane, I sprayed the green over the dark earth which in essence was the undercoat. Colours I'm using are:
Vallejo 71.029 and Humbrol 29 for Dark Earth
Vallejo 71.012 and Humrbol 30 for Dark Green
Am I using the wrong colours, or wrong technique (or both!). I have seen one video where they do 3 or 4 really light layers which would work better, especially if I had a white undercoat, but I still think the contrast between these two Vallejo colours is not enough compared to Humbrol.
On another point, will this help with the scale effect? I've seen you guys talk about this where you need a higher contrast depending on the scale, how does that work?!