"Painting 1/600 aircraft" Topic

Can someone share their techniques in painting ww2 1/600 aircraft?

Where, in the US, does one buy decals for this scale?

Is there a video somewhere showing painting techniques for this scale?

Thank you!

The 1/600 aircraft Yahoo group has a good tutorial (Word doc) by Dom Skelton that covers the basics. I think the main choices in techniques are how to do canopies (dark grey vs. black vs. blue) and washing panel lines (yes/no).

Dom's Decals has the best/only? selection of decals in 1/600, he's in the UK but shipping is cheap and fast (especially for just decals). You can use 1/300 for bigger bombers, either Dom's or I-94's.

Decals try Dom's Decals:-

domsdecals.com

Everything you could possibly want.

Definitely sign up to the 1/600 Yahoo group.

Techniques depend which manufacturer you're using though – the deep detailing on most Tumbling Dice stuff works really well with a "basic colours, black wash, fill in the details" approach, but it doesn't tend to get great results on Oddzial Osmy – they need manual highlights to get the best from them.

For decals I'm more or less the only game in town – picoarmor carry some of my 1/600 range in the US, otherwise it's direct from me. As boy wundyr says, on multi-engine stuff you can use 1/300 decals, which a few firms do – I-94 are the obvious US candidate.

Thanks!

I generally paint them with a brush, using either acrylics, or enamels, depending upon which is the best color match.

You can make them look a bit better by weathering them a little, once you've put the basic color on, by adding a little white to your paint, and drybrushing that over the darker colors.

I use dark gray for the cockpits, but some prefer light blue. Most photos I see show dark gray as the more likely color.

For panel lines, instead of trying to paint, or ink them, I use a very fine, 0.3mm drafting, mechanical pencil to highlight them. Works very well, and looks more realistic in my opinion, than black ones.

Decals from Dom, or I-94.

For inspiration there is rriggles {I bought Fokkers and SPADs} on Ebay and tacticalpaint.tictail.com [modern and WW2 currently] – yes, I buy painted miniature 1/600th aircraft. I still am trying to paint my own but when you want something "now" these are my two "go to" sources.

I have been known to spend some undisclosed time "just looking" at the miniatures

This has left me thinking I need to find the time to redo that painting tutorial some time. Up to my eyeballs in printing backlog at the moment, but I might have a crack at it over Christmas….

@ Mute

wow….they/he/she/them….do amazing work. I'm kinda lazy and I know I couldn't paint that well. I might be throwing them some $$

Thanks

Put in a $45 USD order recently for WW2 desert stuff.

Now I need to finalize which 2D rules I will be using… WW1 and Modern I have definite rules for but not WW2.

Weird but WW2 is #3 for me…

Dom,

Please do, I need all the help I can get. I have so many unpainted 1/600th planes…

I've just taken delivery of a few squadrons' worth of WW2 1/600 aircraft from Oddzial Osmy.

(a) **** they're small!
(b) The detail looks very fine – what do others tend to use as a primer? I've used Halfords car primer in the past for 28mm but worry that it'll obscure the detail on these?

Would brushed on Gesso be a better bet?

(UK based)