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I just came across this great build and l’m reviving a bit of an old topic. I’m just pulling mine out and this is certainly a benchmark to aim at.
When you do you oil canning effect, do you mask/paint a single horizontal line at a time and then move the tape up? Or do you mask several horizontal levels at once with very thin strips and spray them, then move on to the vertical?
I very much like you’re effect. I did a similar shading on my USS Laffey build:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k7aqn9v8yrd98ip/04.jpg?dl=0
But I masked a grid and sprayed the same corner with a lighter color. Overall good effect, but extremely tedious and I think highlighting the raised “rib” of the oil can the way you’re method does is a more realistically.
It would be very uniform, but I wonder if the process could even be sped up by spraying the lighter color first, then using a course window screen as a mask for the grid and then spray the darker color. Then overspray to fill the contrast.