Spraying the hull with a dark brown actually gave it a nice worn dirty feel around the details, especially around the (fuel tank cap?) on the engine deck. Watching this has inspired me to grab one of these resin kits and try it out myself.
I won't lie, looking at this kit has convinced me to start putting together for a decent resin printer and learn to 3D model, if I can make something even half this quality I'd be happy!
That's pretty interesting and a lot to think about. The random paint application really enhances the surface texture. I also like the shading around the rivets and hinges. It just seems to happen automatically. I would be very hesitant to try this myself, so it is good to watch how it works for you.
Just decided to pull the trigger on a resin printer- hopefully in a week or two I'll be able to make some of my own designs. These things seem like a truly a liberating factor in the hobbying world. Now, if anyone can recommend a free or relatively cheap 3D modelling program, I'm all ears.
it depends on your personal situation, but if you have an email associated with a school/university, you can get a student license for Autodesk products, they only differ from paid with a "made with autodesk student" watermark.
Blender is what I'm using to make model railway prints, it's pretty straightforward to learn your way around and pick up maybe a dozen features to push out a simple vehicle.
No blender. Use Fusion 360. They have private personal license. There are some restrictions but anyway it is much better for the modeller than blender.
I would really be interested to see if this technique would work with lighter colours like dunkelb yellow. I think it works on mid tone colours like green and grey. But yellow might be different.
Hello. I have strictly bo interest in modelling, but your "ma friend" weekly is something addictive. And the quality of your video is very good. I don't know why, but i love this weekly update from estern europe. Thanks.
I think the French cold war tanks had more bluish-grey tint to the green, iirc the colour news clips. It looked like blue gray base, over which the camo was applied.
I think you are one of the best model painters on you tube and your models look stunning. I am a firm believer that a model can only take so much content and I have now taught myself when to stop. I believe a lot of people over do chipping, especially on aircraft. I have seen some people try and copy the really weathered and chipped look of say a Pacific theatre P38 Lightening. Some of these were really weathered but if you copy one of these aircraft on a model I think it looks way over done. Its not inaccurate but there is a scaling effect coming into play.
I'm excited to see how the model will look after all your subsequent weathering layers! Hopefully your airbrush work is more visible at the end of this project than on previous ones :)
Hi Martin, at firxt I thought it looked a bit messy and uneven, but when you appliec the clear coat it lookec absolutely fantastic, well done mate, best regards from Australia.
Everytime I finish a model I think… hey man you did a good job go you. Then I watch uncle night shift and can’t help but think bro… you got a long ways to go
Holy motley! That is a lot of visual texture! I like the idea of the heavier color variation, I think it can turn out well! (The new background is very nice)
Hi Martin, have you ever tested the „sea-salt-method“? You „mask“ the first baselayer of paint with a random layer of salt, stuck with waer to the model. This gives very nice, subtle and random worn paint effects if the second, third… layer of paint is appley onto it. Aircraft modeller use this quite often.
That's a nice finish with the postshading, I may have to try it out. Hey what material did you use for your black background. I tried using black card stock on my latest video and I couldn't get rid of all the hot spots that were washing out the video quality. Cheers!
You make amazing weathering but I think you overdo the pin wash contrasts. Maybe they fit a harsh summer noon light, if it came from every direction. But in a more common overcast day you need a bland contrast. The end result is a bit "A Scanner Darkly" style.
AMAZING. It looks really great! I will try it maybe on my KV-1. CAn you also check out IBG models 1/35 kits like 7TP or KTO Rosomak? THey have full inside interior and they look really nice.
Great work! Do you have a video that explains the benefits of having the tip of the airbrush removed for some steps, I'm guessing for better visibility when working so close to the model?
Love it! The black background will be perfect for future binge-watching sessions at night! Also, do you think that one could apply figure-painting techniques onto a vehicle? Like, brushing on thin layers to create smooth color transitions?
I'm probably going to be one of the few people who disagrees that subsequent weathering completely overpowered your previous post-shading efforts. The fact that we can't immediately see certain effects doesn't negate the role they play in the final result. Still, I'm always interested to see your experiments!
hey night shift, just out of curiosity, whats your take on science fiction and or fantasy modelling? i would love to see you tackle some of those of the rails models pretty much thinking about warhammer 40k models and the like
I've been watching your videos for about a year and think your work is great. What's the turntable you have your model mounted on for spraying? It looks like a really useful tool.
Hey, always love the videos. Pretty much my favorite thing to do on fridays and always looking forward to it. That said I notice that the pipod for the 50.cal or 12.7 browning as the french like to call it is very much green. Don't know if you going to paint it late (most likely) but they are always black in french army. I was with the legion for five years and the pipods and the guns were just blacked out steel that had been worn out over time to a mess of black and metal. Looking forward to the next week. Cheers.
Looks great as always, but I have two questions. What is that black material on your workshop and how You clean it from airbrushed paint? I have always trouble with that... ;) All the best for You! ;)
*Will your tank be a part of a diorama? Because for a prototype the paint looks too much worn. But if it some kind of an alternate history it's great! I hope to watch that in your next video. 😉*
I used this method in the past but was worried that it would change the hue of the base color too much. I also found it a bit more difficult to control the final color. I have since switched to a new method that, in my opinion, solves some of the problems. I do all the normal priming, and then overlay a fully opaque base coat color over that. I'll do lots of mottles of really stark colors then slowly bring the color back to where it should be (e.g. if I'm doing OD 41 for an early war US fighter plane, I'll do an opaque OD 41 coat, then white->yellow->yellow-green->light-green->khaki, all thinned at 9:1 IPA:paint). I'll do a 19:1 IPA:paint of a dark shadow coat (for the OD 41 color, something a bit darker than the base coat but not too bad) on the panel lines and other areas that I want to start having the appearance of being grungy. Finally, I'll spray over everything with a 9:1 thinned base color again to bring the color back to where it should be. I adapted my current method from Scale-a-ton's older methods and it works great!
I think that I will never be able to paint such tiny dots with my old airbrush (badger 100). Maybe my thinner-paint mix is wrong, maybe I'm using the wrong colours that dries on the tip of the airbrush, maybe it's the pressure level...I don't know. But I'm very envious that you can paint such tiny dots. Do you have a video about these "technical tips"?
Maybe it's just me but something about the turret reminds me of a frog's mouth, and the green/brown mottling on the hull especially reminds me a lot of the coloration of typical frogs I see here in the USA. No, that's not an intentional reference to the WWI/WWII derogatory French/frog joke, it's just the visual I get from that particular design. It's quite appropriate in the overall look. The mottling strikingly supports the intended illusion of mass and shape rather than a boring hollow plastic shell. In any art (yes, this is art, dammit) knowing when to stop is critical whether it be individual steps or the overall work. So far I think you've done well on that score. What you've got now strongly suggests random coarse-scale sun fading of the factory paint with just enough shading to make details "pop" as they say, so subsequent weathering etc. should pretty much automatically build on that without you having to second-guess yourself (I hope). A white background gives a datum level for color balance in finished-product images but yeah, a dark background seems better (to my eyes at least) for the work-in-progress videos.
Martin, maybe slightly off topic of this build but check out Yuri Smirnov's channel. He's got a 1/25 scale Merkava built almost entirely from paper. I don't know if it's his design or not.
Dear Uncle Night Shift... Doesn't your models get dust in those Ikea cabinets? I'm looking for something for mine, but I'm afraid about those gaps at corners.
Whats that holder thats gripping the tank from both sides? Is it of your own design? Sorry if you've already covered this in your channel! Amazing work, keep up the great tutorials!
Hello, I'm from Brazil, I really like your videos and I've always loved models, unfortunately we don't have this type of model in my country. I would like to know if you or anyone else would know of an online store that sells these types of mockups so I can buy them. Thank you for your attention - keep on with your videos, they are very good.
It looks nice. But sadly it has nothing to do with realism. (This model is absolutely unrealistic in many ways.) And this is the biggest problem with this hobby: it has less and less connection with reality. Especially the competitive modeling became a farce. It is all about trends, marketing bullshit, etc.
Hello, I can never get to do this kind of small spray, please tell me in detail for this example what pressure, needle size, paint type, ratio, etc you used, I am doing something wrong and cant figure it out, for large areas I am fine, but I cant do this what I see you doing so casually. Thank you.
Uncle Night Shift getting to the point where you can see the .jpg compression of his reference pictures ... No really; something about this technique reminds me of old video game textures.
Super video. A taka otázka, niekedy by si nechcel pridať video z vyjazdov na bicykli, lebo myslím, že tu je zopár ľudí modelárov-cyklistov, ktorých by to mohlo zaujímať
Hey uncle night shift,amazing vid as always but I noticed that in every video that you make grab Handel's you don't say the diameter of the wire,I was going to start replacing the grab handles on a kit im working but no idea what diamiter to get, can you please tell me?
I love how the Stielhandgranate is just casually hanging our with the models.
it's actually a wooden replica :D
@@NightShiftScaleModels Don't spoil my fun. :D
I wasn't expecting a full painting video for months man you're incredible, keep up the amazing work I've learned so much from your series!
Spraying the hull with a dark brown actually gave it a nice worn dirty feel around the details, especially around the (fuel tank cap?) on the engine deck. Watching this has inspired me to grab one of these resin kits and try it out myself.
I feel like Night shift is the best model scale builder
Thank you , Uncle Martin .
I won't lie, looking at this kit has convinced me to start putting together for a decent resin printer and learn to 3D model, if I can make something even half this quality I'd be happy!
The post-shading is on a whole other level. Like level 100 crime boss level. 👌
Very cool effect! My favourite words to hear on UA-cam are "My friends, . . . "
That's pretty interesting and a lot to think about. The random paint application really enhances the surface texture. I also like the shading around the rivets and hinges. It just seems to happen automatically. I would be very hesitant to try this myself, so it is good to watch how it works for you.
I was hesitant too, my friend, but this model seemed like the perfect opportunity to fully send it and see how it turns out :)
That summary at the end was really cool.
Interesting technique :), nice model! Thanks for sharing & for your video quality!
Just decided to pull the trigger on a resin printer- hopefully in a week or two I'll be able to make some of my own designs. These things seem like a truly a liberating factor in the hobbying world. Now, if anyone can recommend a free or relatively cheap 3D modelling program, I'm all ears.
Blender is the good standard for art. Fusion 360 is a gimped version of Solidworks, the gold standard for technical models.
it depends on your personal situation, but if you have an email associated with a school/university, you can get a student license for Autodesk products, they only differ from paid with a "made with autodesk student" watermark.
Blender is what I'm using to make model railway prints, it's pretty straightforward to learn your way around and pick up maybe a dozen features to push out a simple vehicle.
No blender. Use Fusion 360. They have private personal license. There are some restrictions but anyway it is much better for the modeller than blender.
@@lobsterbark Thanks man, I appreciate the feedback. Have a good one.
Experimentation breeds innovation ❤🍻
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I would really be interested to see if this technique would work with lighter colours like dunkelb yellow. I think it works on mid tone colours like green and grey. But yellow might be different.
The translucent random base coat where the dark primer is showing through should help with those colors such as dunkelgelb, sand yellow, etc. :)
Nice potato masher. Awesome video, I picked up something today. Thank you.
Hello. I have strictly bo interest in modelling, but your "ma friend" weekly is something addictive. And the quality of your video is very good. I don't know why, but i love this weekly update from estern europe. Thanks.
I think the French cold war tanks had more bluish-grey tint to the green, iirc the colour news clips. It looked like blue gray base, over which the camo was applied.
Great vid Great work! 👍👍👍
You are absolutely amazing, the king of model making, keep up the good work, thanks for your great videos!!
1:57, I thought for a moment you were doing Math lol. Perfect timing, just as I sat down at the workbench, cheers uncle ;-)
When I'm painting my Wargaming tanks, I paint and highlight to 11, then weather them back down to 10. Works every time.
Yes is Friday Night Shit night…….
You are the reason I started modeling so thanks for sharing your skills……….
Yugo t-34 when? Or maybe another T-72? Or a restoration of your old T-72? 😳 Love your work!
Yugo T-34... hopefully this year :)
Best time of the week!
I think you are one of the best model painters on you tube and your models look stunning. I am a firm believer that a model can only take so much content and I have now taught myself when to stop. I believe a lot of people over do chipping, especially on aircraft. I have seen some people try and copy the really weathered and chipped look of say a Pacific theatre P38 Lightening. Some of these were really weathered but if you copy one of these aircraft on a model I think it looks way over done. Its not inaccurate but there is a scaling effect coming into play.
Welcome back, Martin and happy new year. Your Friday evening videos are the perfect start to a weekend.
"MAH-FRENS!" = The start of a great weekend!
I'm excited to see how the model will look after all your subsequent weathering layers! Hopefully your airbrush work is more visible at the end of this project than on previous ones :)
I'm pretty much 98% done after today, and I'm happy to report that SOME of it is still visible :D
Hi Martin, at firxt I thought it looked a bit messy and uneven, but when you appliec the clear coat it lookec absolutely fantastic, well done mate, best regards from Australia.
Everytime I finish a model I think… hey man you did a good job go you. Then I watch uncle night shift and can’t help but think bro… you got a long ways to go
Holy motley! That is a lot of visual texture! I like the idea of the heavier color variation, I think it can turn out well! (The new background is very nice)
Lol bruh...so far it's looking good. Cheers mate!
Awesome work, thanks for sharing this new build
Hi Martin, have you ever tested the „sea-salt-method“? You „mask“ the first baselayer of paint with a random layer of salt, stuck with waer to the model. This gives very nice, subtle and random worn paint effects if the second, third… layer of paint is appley onto it. Aircraft modeller use this quite often.
I've got to try this. Great model, my man!
That's a nice finish with the postshading, I may have to try it out. Hey what material did you use for your black background. I tried using black card stock on my latest video and I couldn't get rid of all the hot spots that were washing out the video quality. Cheers!
For many years I have been adding gloss clear to all my paint
looks great!
You make amazing weathering but I think you overdo the pin wash contrasts. Maybe they fit a harsh summer noon light, if it came from every direction. But in a more common overcast day you need a bland contrast. The end result is a bit "A Scanner Darkly" style.
9:55 In those shots and that lighting, it looks real. It looks like a hunk of steel...it has weight.
AMAZING. It looks really great! I will try it maybe on my KV-1. CAn you also check out IBG models 1/35 kits like 7TP or KTO Rosomak? THey have full inside interior and they look really nice.
Man I wish I was this good at modeling...
Great work! Do you have a video that explains the benefits of having the tip of the airbrush removed for some steps, I'm guessing for better visibility when working so close to the model?
In the first oarts of painting it looked like low res texture from wot back in the 2015
Love it! The black background will be perfect for future binge-watching sessions at night!
Also, do you think that one could apply figure-painting techniques onto a vehicle? Like, brushing on thin layers to create smooth color transitions?
I'm probably going to be one of the few people who disagrees that subsequent weathering completely overpowered your previous post-shading efforts. The fact that we can't immediately see certain effects doesn't negate the role they play in the final result. Still, I'm always interested to see your experiments!
Thumbs up on the black background.....
hey night shift, just out of curiosity, whats your take on science fiction and or fantasy modelling? i would love to see you tackle some of those of the rails models
pretty much thinking about warhammer 40k models and the like
I've been watching your videos for about a year and think your work is great. What's the turntable you have your model mounted on for spraying? It looks like a really useful tool.
Very interesting, to me it's looking a bit sci-fi at the moment and needs bringing back to earth .
Loving the new intro ;D
Black background is great for me since these videos come out at 1 AM where I am. Easier on the eyes ;)
When are you gonna add ray tracing?
Have you ever thought about making an armor kit with an interior?
Hey, always love the videos. Pretty much my favorite thing to do on fridays and always looking forward to it. That said I notice that the pipod for the 50.cal or 12.7 browning as the french like to call it is very much green. Don't know if you going to paint it late (most likely) but they are always black in french army. I was with the legion for five years and the pipods and the guns were just blacked out steel that had been worn out over time to a mess of black and metal. Looking forward to the next week. Cheers.
What we need is a tutorial on post-shading WITHOUT an airbrush.
Heck yes, Friday, 1 AM night shift time! Great as usual my friend!
When airbrushing tanks or figures, what do you do to avoid an airbrushed look?
Great video, Martin! I am going to try this technique on my next build!
Less is no longer more. More is more, nothing like excess.The Charles Darwin of armour modelling pushing the evolution of the hobby 😜. Great vid 👍👏
Could you make another tank from these guys?
9:03 FROG
wait now I think that French Armour is like a turquoise
Looks great as always, but I have two questions. What is that black material on your workshop and how You clean it from airbrushed paint? I have always trouble with that... ;) All the best for You! ;)
Love your sense of humor and thanks for you vids!
Goddamn, it looks like it's from old version of WOT
Why is it so dotted? It doesn't look natural at all.
Hey! Great shading i am a kind of new modeler i have been doing it for 2 years now, I was wondering how you cut the wood perfectly in your diaromas.
I've been rewatching some of your first vids(ball tank, Chi-ri) and man, the progress you've made over the past couple years is amazing to see.
Looking for videos, for making camouflage with camo nets
Hi NightShift. Is it possible to tell which kind of airbrush are you using? Thanks 👍
The background makes me feel like I’m watching plasmo
Замечательная работа. Мастеру 👏👏👏👏👏👍
How do you deal with the fumes from the paint when airbrushing? Do you use some kind of fan?
I like when you make new builds, but you promised a T-55 diorama, any info about it? Is it still in to-do list or abandoned project?
My injury, and the lack of suitable figures, got in the way of that T-55 diorama, and I already kinda lost interest in it :)
"won't really cut it" - cuts the label from the label maker... I saw what you did there
completely unintentional :D
*Will your tank be a part of a diorama? Because for a prototype the paint looks too much worn. But if it some kind of an alternate history it's great! I hope to watch that in your next video. 😉*
Hello Nigh Shift, can we use this method of painting into Modern Tanks?
2:47 I love the mottled green/black effect! Could make for a cool camo pattern.
"Boring French green" lol.
Good video.... so satisfying to watched it you paint that armor
Great job as always
🔵🔵🔵👍👍👍😀😀😀✔️✔️🔵🔵🔵
I used this method in the past but was worried that it would change the hue of the base color too much. I also found it a bit more difficult to control the final color. I have since switched to a new method that, in my opinion, solves some of the problems. I do all the normal priming, and then overlay a fully opaque base coat color over that. I'll do lots of mottles of really stark colors then slowly bring the color back to where it should be (e.g. if I'm doing OD 41 for an early war US fighter plane, I'll do an opaque OD 41 coat, then white->yellow->yellow-green->light-green->khaki, all thinned at 9:1 IPA:paint). I'll do a 19:1 IPA:paint of a dark shadow coat (for the OD 41 color, something a bit darker than the base coat but not too bad) on the panel lines and other areas that I want to start having the appearance of being grungy. Finally, I'll spray over everything with a 9:1 thinned base color again to bring the color back to where it should be.
I adapted my current method from Scale-a-ton's older methods and it works great!
I think that I will never be able to paint such tiny dots with my old airbrush (badger 100). Maybe my thinner-paint mix is wrong, maybe I'm using the wrong colours that dries on the tip of the airbrush, maybe it's the pressure level...I don't know. But I'm very envious that you can paint such tiny dots.
Do you have a video about these "technical tips"?
Maybe it's just me but something about the turret reminds me of a frog's mouth, and the green/brown mottling on the hull especially reminds me a lot of the coloration of typical frogs I see here in the USA. No, that's not an intentional reference to the WWI/WWII derogatory French/frog joke, it's just the visual I get from that particular design. It's quite appropriate in the overall look. The mottling strikingly supports the intended illusion of mass and shape rather than a boring hollow plastic shell.
In any art (yes, this is art, dammit) knowing when to stop is critical whether it be individual steps or the overall work. So far I think you've done well on that score. What you've got now strongly suggests random coarse-scale sun fading of the factory paint with just enough shading to make details "pop" as they say, so subsequent weathering etc. should pretty much automatically build on that without you having to second-guess yourself (I hope).
A white background gives a datum level for color balance in finished-product images but yeah, a dark background seems better (to my eyes at least) for the work-in-progress videos.
Martin, maybe slightly off topic of this build but check out Yuri Smirnov's channel. He's got a 1/25 scale Merkava built almost entirely from paper. I don't know if it's his design or not.
Dear Uncle Night Shift... Doesn't your models get dust in those Ikea cabinets? I'm looking for something for mine, but I'm afraid about those gaps at corners.
Yeah, blackground and black primer... anyone see the model I put down? Awesome vid ma friend, can't wait for the rest of '22. Cheers.
Whats that holder thats gripping the tank from both sides? Is it of your own design? Sorry if you've already covered this in your channel! Amazing work, keep up the great tutorials!
Looking well very green. Nice job.
Hello, I'm from Brazil, I really like your videos and I've always loved models, unfortunately we don't have this type of model in my country.
I would like to know if you or anyone else would know of an online store that sells these types of mockups so I can buy them.
Thank you for your attention - keep on with your videos, they are very good.
Martin do you do videos on Patreon?
I love the stylized look on models. I will try this.
It looks nice. But sadly it has nothing to do with realism. (This model is absolutely unrealistic in many ways.) And this is the biggest problem with this hobby: it has less and less connection with reality. Especially the competitive modeling became a farce. It is all about trends, marketing bullshit, etc.
she is a handsome beast -love the French oscillating turret designs !😍😍
Hello, I can never get to do this kind of small spray, please tell me in detail for this example what pressure, needle size, paint type, ratio, etc you used, I am doing something wrong and cant figure it out, for large areas I am fine, but I cant do this what I see you doing so casually. Thank you.
Uncle Night Shift getting to the point where you can see the .jpg compression of his reference pictures ...
No really; something about this technique reminds me of old video game textures.
Would you ever try a wargame vehicle? Like a GW ork battle wagon or something? Would be cool seeing a good modelmaker making this😊👍
Super video. A taka otázka, niekedy by si nechcel pridať video z vyjazdov na bicykli, lebo myslím, že tu je zopár ľudí modelárov-cyklistov, ktorých by to mohlo zaujímať
Hey uncle night shift,amazing vid as always but I noticed that in every video that you make grab Handel's you don't say the diameter of the wire,I was going to start replacing the grab handles on a kit im working but no idea what diamiter to get, can you please tell me?