Lantern Building Walls

One side of the lantern building had its wall airbrushed tonight. The texture of the model is really good, and using the airbrush really shows the details - an ordinary job using a brush will most likely make all the details fade. Care had to be taken though with the specs of dust, that tend to stick to the surface after spraying a coat. However I've done one mistake: the center of the windows should have been covered as well, because a thin mist deposited on the window sides on the inside. However with the white windows applied, this might not look too bad after all, providing a bit of a "highlight", usually needed for the small models because the light doesn't cast the same shadows compared to the real thing (so say the experts).

 The formula used, applied in 3 coats, follows:
0,9 ml XF-2 (Tamiya Flat White)
 6 drops of XF-64 (Tamiya Red Brown)
 1 ml X-20A (Tamiya Thinner)

The 3M masking tape applied on the bricks had the added benefit of removing extra mortar that was lying on the face of the bricks themselves.

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