I'm Keepin' On Keepin' On
and being back to work keeps me busy. But good news! If you are looking for a silver lining, I've been drinking the balloon juice and working on a new series of airship posts. Admittedly, the posts will not be this awesome, but I'm excited to be spergin' 'bout airships again. I've nearly finished the first draft of part one, which is always the hardest part. Once I start posting, I hope to do them about once a month - I figure three or four parts. Meanwhile, the Ju 290 goes well: I've done the panel-shading, and the splinter camo. Asking a few people about colors gave me the answer "trying to color-match World War 2 stuff is in a non-trivial sense a sucker's game", so I went with the shades that looked right. The grey is Vallejo's Basalt Grey, which when painted has a shade of purple in it. The green is a model master acryl RLM green, which I thought looked right. After putting down layers of future to strengthen the pa...