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    Thank you!

    The orange is Citadel Ratskin Flesh.

    As for the canopy it's done in many thin layers.

    You'll want a dark, medium and light tones of whatever paint colour you like.

    Put some dark paint on yout pallette and thin it with water.

    Paint the entire surface in the dark color, then add a bit if the medium tone to it and paint a smaller area, add more of the medium tone paint to your dark tone and paint a smaller area still until you get to where you can paint with just the medium tone.

    Then do the same progression by adding the lighter tone to the medium tone, keeping the paint nicely thinned.

    The areas you paint with each layer should be getting smaller as the paint mix you use gets lighter.

    (note: inverse square law of light - here's an example from flash photography http://photography.tutsplus.com/articles/rules-for-perfect-lighting-understanding-the-inverse-square-law--photo-3483 )

    You can always spray one of the blister packages the ships come in with black primer and try painting couple of gradients on the plastic to practice. It's not difficult you just need to get the paint thickness right so it layers nicely.

    - Use a smaller brush with a fine tip (size 0 will do, quality of the tip is more important)

    - Paint in light strokes

    - Thin your paint

    - Build up several layers

    Thanks for taking the time to explain this :)

    I have a few paints but mostly tamiya acrylics for WW2 tanks so will have to grab some of that Citadel colour.

    Thanks again!

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