I am completing an M8 howitzer by Tamiya. Great build, a little tedious but really really looks cool. I had no idea something like this existed. It painted it with acrylic olive drab and have put two coats of future, it is drying as we speak. Tonite, I want to add my weathering cocktail which is flat black, water and dishsoap as described countless times before. My question is, when you weather, do you first put the decals on, let them dry and then weather on toip of them including the decals. I guess my problem in the past has been a nice weathered look with shiny decals. Please tell me the sequence. Also, in the past I have put base coat enamel olive drab. Will it matter if I use acrylic weathering on a future coat over acrylic? By the way, I now have come to the dark side and have stopped aircraft for a while. OI am convinced the detail and variety armor offers is so much more attractive. I love WWII planes, but I have had enough of them for a while. Here comes my light sabre, I am on the darkside!
You have the sequence kinda right. Paint your base coat, apply glosscoat for decals (Future in your case), apply decals, seal decals with dullcoat (or another coat of Future), weather, apply a final dullcoat to seal it all together and flaten it out completely.
This sequence allows the decals to be weathered as well, that gives you uniformity and does not leave a weatered vehicles with fresh paint on it.
Using acrylics to weather over enamels or future is fine too.
I agree with the order but for me this sequence takes 5 days because I wait a day for each step to dry (future, decals, future, weathering, dulcote). How long do you all wait in between these steps?
I don’t use Future, I use Testor’s Glosscoat and Dullcoat for sealing my models. I do it all in sequence, only waiting long enough for the dullcoat/glosscoat to dry to touch, about 10 min for gloss, almost instantly for dullcoat. I have had no problems this way. I usually let the decals dry overnight, or at least a couple of hours before sealing them.
For me, the decals go on right after the basecoat. I’ll paint on a little gloss, wait to dry, apply decals, seal with dullcoat, then it’s on to the washing, drybrushing, and other weathering.
Well, how’s about a picture ! ! !!
Basically do the same as Zokissima. For pics, look in my Showcase links below.