Painting and Finishing Techniques by Gary Edmundson

Reading the Airfix bookazine has inspired me to read more about how the military/aircraft modellers paint and finish their models. Osprey's range of books has some interesting titles on the subject, so after a browse on Amazon I ordered this one;

 

As the cover suggests it covers AFVs and aircraft, using examples in the 1/35 and 1/48 scales. Pre-shading, masking, drybrushing etc. are well covered, as you'd expect, but so is the use of oil paints, something which railway modellers like myself wouldn't think of useing. One technique which stands out is applying a metalic finish by drybrushing using enamel silver mixed with raw umber oil paint. There's also some excellent methods on woodgrain finishes. I'm not sure how much of the information given I'll actually make use of but its always interesting to read how other modellers in different disciplines work.

Interestingly, in the introduction the writer tells us that plastic modellers originally looked to railway modellers for ideas on finishing models, now it seems that an increasing number of railway modellers are looking to the plastic modelling crowd for new techniques.

Painting and Finishing Techniques, Gary Edmundson, Osprey Publishing 2010, ISBN 978-1-84603-263-9

Paul.