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Good question. Reference photos are a huge help so you know each character's color scheme. For skin tones, paint manufacturers name their paints fairly accurately so you know what the color tone is used for. Something like skin shadows or skin highlights. Reference photos are the most important piece for understanding where to paint the shadows and highlights. After that, it takes practice and experience to master the layering so you can achieve smooth and natural color transitions

@@relentlesstorm Thank you very much for your detailed answer, by reference photographs do you mean those scans that are included with the figure when you purchase it? Or is it something else. I met a person who painted a figure, he had a sheet with a figure and a color palette for it. It may make sense to search the Internet for programs to determine colors in a picture or scan. In any case, I am grateful to you for your answer, maybe you can offer your answer, your ideas about programs for recognizing shades

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Thanks. I'll check that out!

@@relentlesstorm You'll appreciate his work I promise....

That diorama sounds incredible! This hobby is so much fun and like you say, each project teaches you something and you keep getting better and better. Thanks for the information references. I am definitely going to check those out for my next Tiger interior build. I have the RFM mid Tiger with the cutaway hull and turret that I want to do. I do love book references so I'll be sure to check those out as well. Thanks!

@@relentlesstorm LOVE your work! Oh dude, its a MONSTER indeed. WELL past the point of no return here. Couldve bought another entire home @ this point!..Ha! -Over 300$K into it so far (over time), as to models, figs, buildings, paint, scratch building materials, sundry items.... -Got a FAMO here on the bench about to get wrapped up, I somehow have over 400+$'s into it all with aftermarket kits involved!?...EEK! ('Tiger Model Designs' wonderful resin 6-8 ton bilstein crane & his accessories offered for vehicle, 'Panzer-Art' FAMO front wheels & all the Wheels/Tires for the Famo's Sd.Ah.116 23 ton trailer, 'Panzer Concepts' FAMO late fender/air-tanks/wheels/track kit. 'BoldDivision' folded canvas drivers cab/tilt. the TAM FAMO also kitbashed with sub-assemblies from 'AFV Clubs' Bussing-Nag 4500A 3-ton crane truck (AFV's is an EXCELLENT, well-detailed kit BTW, you'd prob dig?)...All I can say is that Ive painted up nearly every era-appropriate 'PlusModel' accessory set they offer, many in multiples...Ha! Thank the Lord above for PlusModel. They just do >>incredible work<<...;) Prob built all models involved in dio thrice over now due to skill >> progression >> -650 1/35th figures @ last count, 1/2 of those commercial resin example$..Ive yet to even start on the base, groundwork & trees... Many tanks/vehicles under repairs & passing through, or coming from the front. Small field hospital, Nachrichten/Signals detachment, olde Roman ruins, large field officer meeting, field laundry, river & bridge. I appreciate the more mundane aspects of life behind the front, as the fiery kinetic energy of combat scenes is well nigh tough to capture in any scale (Or do correctly, although it can be done) Prob 4 PZ III's, 5+ PZ IV's, 6-8 panthers, 3 Bergepanther recovery tanks, 5 heavily mod'd FAMOS w/two trailers, 6-7 Tiger 1's, 10+ StuG III's/IV's, 6 or so Sd.Kfz 234's armored cars of all types.(Then RFM & Miniart releases NEW Sd.Kfz 234's!?..Grrr-ood thing I guess?...;) Bunch of soft skin vehicles, buses, Anti-Aircraft emplaced 88's & 20-37mm armed 1/2 tracked Sd.Kfz 7's & 8's. A TON of scratch-building (Which I LOVE doing;), all 'Hansa Systems" structure & buildings, hes got GREAT stuff BTW-'Legos' for adults;) All buildings present plumbed for lighting, etc....Plan on donating the dio to a museum when done.... The overall scene being a French mans rural countryside Gas Station, bearing his own auto/heavy truck repair shop, machine shop, foundry & auto junkyard. GREAT short term place for Germans to rent from him for a bit & set up operations due to in-place additional heavy lift gantries. Late June-Mid July 1944, somewhere between Falaise & Argentan, France.... SO Correct as to ones skill progression, even models completed just 2 short years ago dont seem to stack up quality wise against current builds, so time to re-purchase & rebuild em (Or try to repaint/jazz em up a bit if poss). This on top of modeling since I was 5 years of age (Born: 12/25/1974) Theres >always< room to get better right? STILL learning new techniques & striving to properly apply them, set new goals or way-points to meet. The reason why I love your own & others vids here on YT, being that I pick up so very much from them. For that: I thank you for your copious amounts of work invested, with not only the models themselves, but the immense amount of TIME invested in the video making editing, narration & overall vid assemblage process. Such a discipline being an entirely secondary art form in & of itself! (I'd thought about doing so, but it would suck up SO much more time than just the build process's alone! -IF I ever vid n' post examples of my work, itll be a quik n' sloppy job just showing the past n' present works. If I ever do, Ill def letcha know) Looking forward to more of your new build vids & viewing the older ones, I'd just stumbled across your YT channel today. Sub'd.... Take er easy & enjoy your Sunday & summer! ~Greets from Whidbey Island, WA, C.L.R

Thank you! I saw the M113 is coming out next. I have the M8 and the Puma in 1/16 scale yet plus a Tiger and Stug so I'm likely going to pass on the M113.

@@relentlesstorm ah but , different era , red soil , dark olive drab ..... M

Thanks Mark. Ah, that is a good point, the gun cleaning rods were wood with metal threads in the end. Good catch! Here I was thinking about the brass gun cleaning rods I use on rifles.

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Thank you! Nice to see Lychee stopping by since that's the software I use. I'm sure you'll want to come back to see another figure video I have cooking at the moment. Another X-Men figure at that!

Thanks. You can and I have used the same principals at 1/35 scale but you have to use a brush instead of an airbrush after the zenithal highlights

Most of the exterior PE you see was an from an upgrade kit I got separately. Takom makes a 1/16 Tiger that is very manageable. I'm making the 1/16 M10 now which literally has 6 PE parts that you can handle without a tweezers. Very doable

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I did! Someone else caught that as well and I put them on in the beginning of the next video. :)

Good tip!

I'm glad to hear that!

The enamel was applied straight over the acrylic in this case. It is safe to apply enamels directly over acrylics. I typically seal in the exterior base coat before applying weathering in case of mistakes.

@@relentlesstorm thank you for the reply, I'm a beginner and found your video fascinating, again thank you 👍