Cammo paint on Hummer

[Porsche 928_gts_02]

Hello,

I have a hard plastic shell hummer, not the lexan type. How do I paint it cammo? I've seen the end result, never seen it done. I'd like to paint this for my nephew to give it to him, but I don't know where to start.

Lay it on me...

[Shodog]

You will get the best results with an airbrush. find a combination of paints which appeal to you and go for it. I practiced on a beater shell before I painted my Hummer shell. You just have to practice and go with the flow. I used my son's camo jacket as a template and went from there. you will get the feel for it. The best part is if you screw up you just layer another coat of a different color.

Here are some pics of my Hummer http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=363&id=34

and some of my Fast Attack

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=3219&id=34

[WillyChang]

There are different shades of camo, depending on your battleground's surroundings. Model shops usually stock paintsets of 5 or 6 colours to suit military modellers.

You can get pretty good results using Tamiya bottle XF (flat) acrylic paints in earthtones and handbrushing too. Genuine 1:1 military paintwork is usually handpainted/handtouchedup and pretty rough.

[Porsche 928_gts_02]

I understand the need for a varing set of paints, depending on what you wanna go with as far as the color schemma.

However, what I really need to know is HOW you actually get the colors to blend and take shape? Do you paint a color, then mask and paint another? Just paint a pattern? This is the part I don't know how actually to do? The art of making the pattern and the actual process. See, I'm tring to find out if you just paint or mask and paint?

[snollan]

quote:Originally posted by Porsche 928_gts_02

I understand the need for a varing set of paints, depending on what you wanna go with as far as the color schemma.

However, what I really need to know is HOW you actually get the colors to blend and take shape? Do you paint a color, then mask and paint another? Just paint a pattern? This is the part I don't know how actually to do? The art of making the pattern and the actual process. See, I'm tring to find out if you just paint or mask and paint?

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This article might give you a little help or atleast point you in the right direction.

http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/plastic/t...g_military.html

http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/plastic/t..._afvmodels.html

This one has a section on camo painting.

http://www.missing-lynx.com/articles/germa...int/jbpaint.htm

Hope this helps.

[Shodog]

you don't need to mask anything. My hummer is a three color job. I layed down a base coat of Field gray. Then I shot some of the red brown. Then I shot some of the black, the I used the field gray over both of those colors. Then I used red brown over those colors, then used the black over those colors. This gives is a weave effect where one color is not any more prominent than the other.

Jim

[J3cubfan]

Believe it or not Testors has some pretty quality Military type paints. Like everyone else said, you neeed to use an airbrush and get the modelmaster flat enamels. Those are what I use when I model my 1/48 scale aircraft and have never had a problem with them.

Just remember to spray you lite coat first....

HTH

John

quote:Originally posted by Porsche 928_gts_02

Hello,

I have a hard plastic shell hummer, not the lexan type. How do I paint it cammo? I've seen the end result, never seen it done. I'd like to paint this for my nephew to give it to him, but I don't know where to start.

Lay it on me...

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