I have finished my test scheme and first 10mm model. After I completed all of the details I attempted two things I am not very good at. Final detail highlight and hand painted varnish. I mixed a bit of red with yellow until I got a nice light orange. I thinned it down a great deal and slowly built up the highlights where I wanted them. This was time consuming but I feel it gave me more control over how bright the orange was and where it was. Next I'd never used brush on varnish before so I spent an hour practicing on some throw away models. I learned that you have to work quickly and carefully with varnish. It is sort of like a brush on candy shell. If you brush too fast bubbles will appear and whe the varnish hardens you'll have hardened bubbles. If you brush too slow brush streaks will be permanently visible. So I tried both straight out of the bottle and thinned versions. I decided that straight out of the bottle was the way to go but you need to paint each specific area very quickly with a single brush stroke. I found that too much varnish seemed better than not enough.
So after giving all of the metal a matte varnish and all of the armor a gloss varnish I now have my first completed PHR model. Hope you think it looks ok.
Back to building the other models. My next college term starts today so I'll have less time for DZC and posts unfortunately.
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