Thank you for the great tips and pictures Domi.
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You’re welcome. I hope it helps!
thanks, let’s say my base coat is lacquer base, can I wash it with a water base paint?
Absolutely, jedi_mike. Watercolors are the mildest medium to paint with.
I just want to ask if I’m gonna use a water based paint as a wash do I still need to add water or paint it straight from the bottle? As I understand its the same principle when weathering using lacquer base paints like 10% paint and 90% thinner? pls correct me if im wrong… thanks again
Yeah, you still need to thin them with water (+ washing-up liquid!). The ones I use come as a paste in tubes and do need lots of water to get them to a ‘usable’ wash medium.
You may find that watersoluble inks do not require thinning down. But I do not use those paints, so I can not really give you much more info on them…
If you use acrylics (which are not watercolors), thin with isopropyl alcohol rather than water. You’ll get better results.
That was a brilliant tutorial. I’m back modeling (AFV’s mostly) after 15 years away from the workbench, and it was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a big, big bunch!
Thanks Domi. Now you know where I got the idea when I did my 1/72 M2A2. You’re a big help.[bow]
Glad it did help!
The tip about the viniger has saved me hours of work, thanks so much for mentioning that. A question is can you use watercolor pencils to do highlights, shading ect on things. I am mainly interested in figures, they are so hard with all the small areas and I was wondering if watercolor pencils can help
Never tried that, Miller41, but it might be worth a try! I still think that on figures, the best effects are done with oils, but then I’ve seen brilliant figures painted with acrylics too… Oils seems to be much more ‘workable’…
I use the lead of black pencils to replicate ‘worn off areas’, near rivet heads, on the edges of panels and the like. It’s far less visible than alu/silver paint. I also use the same lead to ‘draw’ panel lines onto aircrafts, particularly on light color schemes (see the pics on page 5 of the Concorde Group Build)…
I have tried the watercolor pencils to highlight and shade some areas on my stug and panther and it seems to work just fine, even if you have acrylic paint down as long as it has cured the watercolor doenst bother it (of course I am not rubbing super hard either) Went ahead and ordered a full set of 72 colered pencils from dick blick, has all the colors I use
I’ll do the same! Good stuff, Miller41…!
Domi, can I ask about the base coat? I tried putting the tutorial into practice, it didn’t look right, and I realised that I had skipped the base coat. Thank God for easily washable water colors! What type of paint for the base coat? How do you mix/thin it? Is it the same as the final color, but thinned out? How do you put it on? Thanks for a great tutorial. Next time I’ll pay more attention.
Buff,
my very first coat is a primer coat, usually sprayed from a can (I use acrylic automotive primer). My base colour is normally either a Humbrol or Revell enamel, normally airbrushed, although in some cases, I’ll use brushes instead. With this combo, I have no fear of any reactions between the paints.
Next come the watercolors for washes, which will not damage the enamels nor the acrylic primer. The oils I use for drybrushing and some weathering rust in particular) are applied in tiny amounts, without any additional thinner so they do not do much damage at all, if any (when you let the base coat dry really well) to the enamel base.
However, this technique could easily be followed by replacing the enamel base coat by acrylic (Tamiya, Gunze,…). I, personally, prefer enamels.
Wow that was fast! Thanks for your help.
You’re welcome, Buff.
Buff, that was me just above, not my wife…! Thought I’d clear it up to avoid confusion! LOL
Domi
dj hi[:)],
this is such a cool articles that i saved it to my “favourites”!![8D][8D][8D]
however, i’ve just gone back to it and none of the pictures are viseible anymore[:(!][V]…is this because of problems with ron george’s site that i’ve been hearing about?
eg i went to your bio page, clicked on your picture got an error message and found myself at ron george’s site…
any ideas, 'cos i’d love to keep this article for my reference with the pics!!![:)]
regards,
nick
Nick, I guess Ron must have moved the pics to another gallery. The upload gallery is only a temporary one…! I’ll re-link them tomorrow or Monday when I have more free time.
Thanks for your interest!
Domi