Some recent “Woodwork” on plastic kits:
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Why are the areas with bracing underneath darker than the rest. Looks right, but I don’t know why it is that way??
Oh, you are talking about the canvas directly above the bows (bracing)!
These canvas areas are higher, more securely supported and therefore more subject to scraps and picking up dirt off of trees as they pass under. Also these shaded areas could represent a bit of shadowing in the sunlight.
The other reason for doing this is artistic license, thereby adding modulation and additional interest to the otherwise plain, uniform canvas coloring.
Lastly I could have just as easily darkened all the canvas and then used pigments to lighten the areas over the bows, producing almost the same affect but in reverse.
If the model canvas had been more fully sculpted as on the original I would have handled the shading differently. As model canvas goes this one is fairly good but still falls sadly short of looking like the real thing.
p.s. I also made the bottom edges of the model canvas more curved and irregular rather the ram-rod straight.
p.p.s. One recent model offering of a Canadian CMP truck has the canvas stretched soooo tight and sooo straight and uniform that you at first think it is a sheet metal top with absolutely no sag, no wrinkles and no folds. (CAD designers often are not so good when it comes to creating sagged, curvilinear and biomorphic shapes. It is just the nature of some of the technology.)
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i used some dirt and earth washes on these wooden floor panels from the Tamiya M577 to practice …
I think they came out alright…
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