I am painting my Chieftain,
The colours are White, Grey Blue and mid Brown. There will be no dirt or grime as this will be “On Parade”
What colour washes would you suggest???..cheers…Kenny
Hello Kenny,but washes do simulate dirt and grime.An overall wash would dust or dirty up the whole thing,or a pin wash serves to bring out hilites.
Maybe you are referring to filters which serve to change the tone or pull the different colors together ?
For a filter,perhaps an ochre,or sand
Tojo 72, yes a wash all over to pull the colours together and then perhaps a pin wash. It is the colour of an all over wash that I am unsure of…cheers…Kenny
The purpose of a wash is to get paint to settle into recesses, cracks, and crevasses and act as a pre-cursor to dry-brushing highlights… 99% of the time, you do a dark (shade of the base-color) wash, then dry-brush the high-lights with lightened shades…
Overall, I’d suggest using dark brown or dark grey for the wash… Grey would probably be better, since you have a multi-colored camouglafe scheme in mind… Even a “parade” camouflage scheme would be in need of the washes and dry-brshing, as the paint istelf is going to be grimy in places, but it will also be sun-faded in others, so keep that in mind… Unless you’re going for it rolling out the factory doors for the parade, that is…
Pin-washes go one step farther in the detailing, adding more depth to areas that are “open”, as opposed to recessed, areas like grille-vents, intakes, exhaust pipe openings, machine-gun muzzles, etc., using thinned paint… Time-consuming yes, but IMHO quite necessary… An overall wash never gets those areas dark enough…
Hans, thanks for looking in, it is the overall wash that I am most concerned with. I want to pull the colours together as normal but I don’t want to degrade the white. Grey is possible. What do you think about Blue ( in the old days we used to add blue when washing Whites to make them whiter ) with dark Grey for the pin wash?..cheers…Kenny
spacemaker: Use a REAL diluted dark brown wash. I use raw umber oil paint as a filter no matter what the base color. This way you won’t lose the colors but you’ll knock down the chroma/vibrancy.
I wouldn’t use blue unless you want to make it a local wash over the white.
I’d be concerned gray will give the colors a sun-faded look…
Hope this helps.
I did exactly the same tank, same color scheme, and I used a dark gray wash—black oil + a little bit of white. Then I went over the gray and brown areas in pure black. It looked great. I wish I had a photo of it, but I can’t find one right now, and that model is at my parent’s house.
SMJmodeler & doog, thanks for your input.
doog, your suggestions sound interesting, I would not have thought of a wash for individual colours.
I did look on your site but the this model is not there. What I am trying to achieve is a model like the following picture, these would be freshly painted and I think even POLISHED, in fact these MBT’s would be covered in nothing else other than good old fashioned “Elbow grease”. However I do like your ideas, tho’ I’m still unsure of myself
cheers…Kenny