>>9765078Mold finish or plastic finish or bare finish, it’s called various things and I don’t remember the moonrunes. Basically, finishing plamo without covering everything in primer or opaque paint in favor of keeping the “purity” of the molded plastic, which has qualities paint can’t have (like subsurface light scattering in some colors and plastic types). Then you focus on other things besides flat even color and prefer other kinds of detailing. Pic related. This was done mostly with markers, no paint, no surfacer, putty, or primer.
Cleaner builds are much harder because you still do things like extend legs or fuel tanks, but since you can’t just throw pla plate in there and putty it up and paint over it, you have to be far more careful and learn things like how to melt down sprue and use that to fix imperfection and build up your modifications.