Can anyone inform me please?
you use either detailers wash or really thinned flat black paint and wash the paint over the panel lines and other recess areas to create shadow and the apperance of a dirty surface. You can go a step further and streak it back from guns, exhaust or intakes to create the look of air movment. It can also be applied in spotchy patterns to reproduce hand prints or general dirt from being used.
Matt has a good short write up as part of weathering…
http://www.swannysmodels.com/Weathering.html
He uses acrylic, I like to use a oil wash but use basically the same technique.
You can use pastel washes, maid from pastel powder mixed with water and a drop of detergent, and maid very thin.
Or a wash of oil paints thinned with White Spirit.
Or a wash with a acrylics or enamels…
ARC has some really good techiques in their Tools ‘n’ tips section. So does tha techiques forum here, you should check it out…
Cheers,
Jürgen
I use very thinned black paint. I go over the panel lines and recesses. Sometimes I’ll put a general coat on the fuselage and wing surfaces so that when I put the color coat over it it shows through slightly in some areas. It gives it that look of dirty paint.
I paint my models using acrylics. But for washes, I use heavily thinned enamel (using enamel thinner). Just paint the stuff on with a brush. Don’t rush because you will get bubbles and puddles if you do. Nice and slow, litle by little, just like painting acrylic – like layer by layer. It should give your model a little more “depth”. If you need to remove some wash, you can use enamel thinner and it won’t harm the acrylic. The wash will stick to corners and edges so they are more defined.