Yes, I always painted it straightforward, but your method of black first really helps darken the corners and crevices in the cockpit. I like that effect!
-Sean H.

So that is the thought behind it. I already figured there would be more to the black start then just a quick way of doing all the instruments. I need to try thta once. See wat i think of it.

I agree with you Joel that pre shading, when done wrong is to overpowering. Especially when somebody then also starts adding to much of a panelwash. You end up with cartoon airplanes.
I saw a build log where somebody used "dark sand brown" under grey as a preshade. And it already looked a lot better.

to use blackprimer to tone down lighter colours is new to me. So i was suprised to see what Tinbanger was doing. Your explanation does make sense. I'm already intrested to try it out.
Would you only use it in interiors or also outside? on the skin i mean...And would you then also use a lighter primer to tone down a dark colour?

cheers Cliff

:-) Don't worry. I know what the primery job for a primer is.

It's more like this. The dutch forum where i am on is really nice. But i did notice that there is a established way of building an airplane. Nothing wrong with that. But by reading foreign modelmagazines i already noticed there are more ways of achieving things.

The reason why i became a member here, is because i was hoping to find more different ways of achieving results. And i promised myself to be open minded and to really the most of those new techniques. So that's where i was coming from with my questions. Thanks for explaining. I really appriciate it

cliff

That's a beast of a different colour!