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A green that must not go dark

Light shades of green are among the most treacherous tones that appear on a model. A little dirt in the airbrush, a remnant of the previous color in the cup or a heavier coat is enough for the shade to shift toward olive. That is why it pays to mix a smaller batch, flush the tool out thoroughly and make a test spray on a piece of waste plastic before you point the gun at a part.

A large area needs a lighter tone

The human eye sees real machines through a layer of air that lightens and bleaches colors. A scaled-down model has no distance at all, so a perfectly faithful shade looks dark and heavy on it. Modelers deal with this through what is called the scale effect: the base tone is lightened slightly, and the more so the smaller the scale you are building. A light green proves itself in such a role both on its own and as an additive with which darker green patterns are lightened.

Sharp and soft edges alike

The boundary between colors is handled in two different ways. A hard transition is masked with tape or with masking putty, while a soft one is sprayed freehand from a short distance and at low pressure, when the stream of paint creates a naturally soft edge. The binder contains solvent, so the paint dries before it can run and the next coat can follow almost immediately; use the product supplied for this line for thinning.

A note on mixing

Within this line the shades mix with one another without restriction. Combining them with water-based paints in one cup makes no sense, though, as the two systems curdle into flakes.