How do you represent Fuel Spills????

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Hey Guys,
I’m putting the finishing touches on my M4A2 Soviet. I’m using the Wydawnictwo book “Lend Lease II” as I guide. Anyway in the book it clearly shows several Shermans with large fuel spills running down the side of the tank, normally I just show a couple of small spills around the fuel cap. How do you guys represent large spills?
I hope this question has not been run into the dirt…[:)]

R/
Jeff

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The spills are easily replicated by a thinned down acrylic, enamel or oil paint applied in small areas. You can determine the how dark you want the spill by how much thinner you use. The more thinner the more opaque the spill would be.

Cheers

Mo

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Jeff you use a very thin out wash of ft.black.Take your mixture or wash,dip your brush(make sure that the brush gets loaded with the pigmints and not just thinner)and touch the brush to the fuel cap,also let it flow down the sides.Digger

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Thanks Fellas… it looks like I’ll thin down alittle ft blk and experiment.
BTW Digger that’s a sweet lookin Marder…

R/
Jeff

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Thanks,Digger

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Tamiya’s acrylic color “Smoke” (I believe it’s paint number is X-21) worked for me. It has the right gloss after application and really looks oily on OD armour. Give it a shot!

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I make a mixture of laundry detergent (to break up surface tension), water, and some flat acrylic black. I use this for my washes, but it also works well for making gas spills on my tigers. After I put an overall wash on the tank, I take my brush and dip it in my wash. Then I sluge a little on the area where they put the gas (on the back behind the turret). Then I fire up the airbrush and I don’t load up any paint. I put it at about 20 psi or so and I spray the “puddle” and I “chase” the streaks that get blown around. It works great to make the effect look random and used and abused. If you want it to streak on the sides, just do some careful aiming and chase the streaks off the side of the hull and down the rear side armor plate. Looks amazing! I’m doing this on my DML porsche turret King tiger, so finished pics will be up soon. Good luck!

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Hello! I use a glossy black wash , to simulate fresh fuel spills , and I get a small brush , with the wash on it , and flick it with my finger , to simulate , splash. Try it on some scrap plastic , painted the same color as your AFV. When satisfied , then apply it . I have used this on my various M-60 tanks , and it looks great.
Frank
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Thanks to all, lots of good ideas!
Happy Modeling!

Jeff[8D]