AndyP72

I’m new to model kits, but have 20 years of being an illustrator and black although sounds easy, is actually one of the hardest tones to work successfully with in my experience. you could experiment on a spare kit or plastic spoons with a few grooves carved in as panel lines and try something like Payne’s grey base and add black for the panel lines. I would say the best answer you will get won’t come from a forum but from experimenting. Try a midnight blue or better still have a go at mixing your own colours. Make a swatch of base colour, shadow and highlights and find something you’re happy with. once you are happy with the base colour, you’re pretty much there. finally I would say that it will appear different to any tests that you do once you scale it up.