Can someone pls give me a good recipe for a wash to use on bringing out detail, running between cooling fins on engines a/c engines and in panel lines. Plain black usually looks fine on engines, but I’ve never been happy with any of my experiments with washes for cockpits and panel line and just plain dirtying up a war weary bird. It’s always either an unnatural-looking color, or I get the thinner/paint ratio all wrong, or it simply doesn’t look natural
I don’t have any oil paints because I haven’t yet learned how to integrate them into my model making, nor how to use them at all. I remember my mother having to use linseed oil and thinner and all manner of things to make the paint flow right in her oil paintings. Anyhow, to the original point, I needs myself a good wash recipe using common paints and thinners and reliable ratios of same. Thanks in advance.
Check out Swanny’s web site.
He’s got some good tips on weathering and washes.
sharkskin, i use artist’s oils thinned in mineral spirits. it works well. later
I use acrylics and water. I prefer Golden brand artist’s acrylics. I add a bit of dishwashing detergent to the water so make it slippery but not sudsy. A couple of drops is plenty. The good thing about acrylics (or artist’s water colors) is that they will wipe off with a damp Q-Tip.
The surface MUST be smooth. The wash won’t flow on flat surfaces and it will get down in the grain of the paint where it is very difficult to remove the excess. I coat mine with Future before washing and that works fine.
Scott,
I wonder how my Createx T-shirt paints would work?
They are very much like Golden’s property wise but I am not sure if the transparent colors would work as well. Maybe they will. [%-)]
Mike
Mike, I think the transparency would be a good thing. It would keep it from looking so stark. It would be worth trying because I really like the way Golden works.
I’ve got some Createx paints to, but somehow I don’t think red, yellow, green, or orange would work very well [:)]
I agree with you there Scott. [;)]
I have practically every color that Createx makes in the 4 oz. bottles.
Mike
I’ve got a little 1/72 scale ME-262 I picked up for $5 that I’ve been considering painting in a red-white-blue paint scheme. Weird panel colors might work on that[^]