Just painted the main body of a 1/35 12.7mm DShK machine gun (it will go on the turret of a JS-IIIM tank) a beautiful buffing gunmetal. I rubbed it to metallic shine.
I’m wondering if it makes sense to apply a thinned black wash into the recesses. I’m tempted just to dry brush with steel and leave it alone; think the thin wash will be invisible against the dark grey of gunmetal anyway.
What do you guys think?
Now, the barrel-receiver element of that MG is gunmetal but other parts of the weapon will be green and those will be dark washed and highlighted as usual.
I don’t wash mine. After spraying with the gunmetal Metallizer, the only thing I add is a subtle drybrush with silver to highlight the gun and give it a little “wear”. I will put a wash and dry brush on the ammo box, since it should be about the same Russian amor green as the rest of the tank.
Gip Winecoff
Conversely, for anything dark like that, I would wash it with a thicker mix of straight black, just to make sure I got all the shadows taken care of, giving it a good wipe at the end.
Actually, when I do gun barrels, I paint the whole thing black to begin with and then drybrush with metallic gray to get a “gunmetal” look, after which I don’t bother washing it at all.
Works for me![:D]