When we spend so much time trying to select the right color scheme for our builds, cut the correct sizes of our scale lumber, planning and creating the perfect landscape scenery for our layouts, scenes and dioramas.
So we don’t want to muck it up by making something so dark that you can’t see the quality work you put in.
Every time you weather, stain, or paint, it’s always best to start light, and add more as needed. Because once that art medium goes on your work, it’s extremely difficult, and sometimes downright impossible to remove or undo.
This goes for scenery as well as structures, details and vehicles. So if you are painting with a brush or sponge, try to remember to add as little as possible and give that extra light coat.
After, stop and look at your handiwork and decide if it needs that second or third coat.
Maybe it will only need a touch here or there. Add in random and think about placement. Use photos as reference or just get a look at something similar in your day to day life, and then proceed.
The world outside your garage, basement, or workspace is weathered. New or Old, time and mother nature has touched it. But sometimes too much is too much and none at all is toy like.
This goes for staining and adding chalk pigments to a structure and adding grass and dirt to scenery.
There is no race. What you are doing is art.
Your art!
So take your time, eyeball it over and you will find you will appreciate it more when complete! And remember, the #1 rule in fine scale modeling, Have Fun!
