odd colors??

[dustey]

what do you do when your working with some odd color build and you cant seem to match it to do the edging and when you use something the seems close it looks bad.. lol

[B-Manic]

Originally Posted by dustey

what do you do when your working with some odd color build and you cant seem to match it to do the edging and when you use something the seems close it looks bad.. lol

In those cases I usually use light gray if it is a light colour or black if it is a dark colour. Another method is to use a darker shade of the same colour. Going lighter always looks odd

[Johnny]

Well...since I'm colorblind the colors are a pain in the a*** to me.
So what I usually does with every new model I start is to take the kit with me to the paintshop and have them use their colorscanner on the parts.Then they makes me a almost perfect match
The drawback is that the smallest box of paint is 0,5 liters....so soon I have enough paint to do a house in strange camo colors

[cgutzmer]

I concur with b-manic
Chris

[Sakrison]

I use four artists' felt-tip pens and one pencil for coloring edges. The pens are medium brown and dark brown, and medium gray and charcoal gray. The pencil is a medium gray somewhere between the two pens. For nearly all the edges, I use the grays. The rule of thumb that I learned somewhere and that works for me is that it's more important to match the CONTRAST than the COLOR.

I never use black unless the part I'm coloring is jet black (most "black" printed parts are actually dark gray). Then I'll use whatever black felt-tip is at hand.

For ships, I might try a red pencil on the hull plates but I wouldn't worry too much about matching the color, so long as it was just a bit darker than
the plates. I suspect that gray would work almost as well if it matched the contrast of the hull.

For large-scale projects, I'd probably use a combination of the above and Testor's Model Master paints--because I have them on hand.

I hope that helps.

No worries,
--David

[dustey]

ah great thanks all ill be posting the build in a few min he is a bufo japonicus formosus (bufo frog/toad is what he is known as in these parts)