Ok so I've got a base coat of Alcald Aluminium on the P-47 Thunderbolt that I'm currently building over on P-47 Heaven.

I was thinking of spraying some of the other panels with different shades of Alclad but after looking through my research it looks to me that there not that much difference or not any at all.

So my question is to shade or not to shade?

What do you guys and gals think on this subject?

depends. look at the state of this.


I'll be tearing me hair out with that one.
But them P-47 got polished so yeah maybe nothing needed or very light. Then again a
bit of variation brings attention to detail, whether the efect is accurate or not, like panel line washes.

I realise that this can be subjective. A bit like wings of the P-51 should be painted silver but other like to leave it metal.

This is the P-47 I'm doing



I normally shade various panels, but I feel this may look a bit odd in 1/32. I may just go for shading some of the small access hatches and the gun bay covers as they would see a lot more use than other areas.

Allen:

Instead of using a differnt color on the panels. Sometimes al you need to do is shoot some thinned down Smoke or similar type color along various panel lines along the finshed paint for some shading. ( kind of like a reverse preshading). Not much is needed to vary it.

HTH

Paul