>>8383241Some people call it "black basing," when you prime your aircraft in basically a black "pre-shade" over the entire surface, and then taking your primary lighter colored paint, such as a light grey or whatever, slowly build up the paint by spraying with a fine tipped needle, very close to the model, moving the airbrush around randomly as you let the paint build up. It leaves the aircraft with a nice textured look, here's a tutorial you can read more about it here:
Basically for my ship I'm using a similar method, just not with a black base. I painted a flat primary color and am just changing the tone using various lighter and darker shades of the same color, it seems to be working out really well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szgTh1-Y6zwThis guy isn't the person who came up with this method, a lot of modellers have been doing similar things with pre-shading / post-shading with an airbrush for a long time. Black basing is probably best used for lighter colors only though, for darker colors or camouflage you can modulate this method by using a variety of colors inside each aircraft panel, for example a yellow base to compliment a green camouflage, with black pre-shading of the panel lines. You just spray slowly and carefully to let the pre-shading and base color peak through the upper layer.
