I had the idea to make some weathering on landing gears with Tamiya smoke acrylic. Any advice on ratios of water and soap?
If your gonna use Tamiya smoke for weathering, just use it out the bottle & dry brush the landing gear otherwise airbrush it the same way as any paint, thin then build up the colour, I think your refering to a sludge mix which is different weathering technique altogether,used mainly for panel lines, I’m sure I’ll be corrected if I’m wrong.
Scott.
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You’re right, I was talking about the sludge technique. I tried with some brown mixed with water and soap but the result was not satisfying. I just tried the same thing but with the smoke paint, less water and a little bit of soap. DON’T DO THIS. The soap and the smoke paint transforms into a kind of ugly paste. I trew this away and tried again with one part of smoke paint for approx. 2 parts of water. It worked well. I’ll posts some pictures of it tomorrow. The result I want is increasing the details on the landing gears and in the landing bay with a king of oily greasy look.
Here is the result with the smoke Tamyia paint. I wanted it to look greasy. It still misses the clear flat coat. Please be honest in your comments. This is my first experience with airbrush and with weathering and sludge techniques so I want to improve myself.
Try using our old friend Future. A little bit of that is great for making acrylics flow.
also be careful when using over acrylics - depending on the situation smoke can eat the paint right off (did it to a Japanese Frank I was trying to weather) I would definitely Future (Klear) over it before using it…
Oh I didn’t forget to protect the acrylic paint with future before applying the smoke paint but I didn’t think about adding some to the smoke for better results. I’ll try that for sure.