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| Subject: | Re: "How a salty dawg does it...?? |  |
| Date: | Jun 16, 2005 |
| From: | stephen brezinski | |
I have doen it about a dozen times but use a different technique. Looking at Doug's desciption i think his may be improved.
1. I paint the base color in acrylics, then only selected areas to be chipped with the undercoat or metal color. I let it dry several days. I prefer oil-base enamal paint to insure it does not react with the water & salt (probably not very important?).
2. With a brush I paint on the water. I have a problem with the water beading up in puddles and not staying where I wish it top be. perhaps an acrylic paint would not be codusive to the water beading up. I never tried the mister.
3. I use table salt. In most situations a finer salt may be better? If the salt clumps up you can nick off grains with tweezers or knife tip. [If you don't like the salt just flick it off and try again.] At this point I do a point wash of oil-paint & turpentine.
4. Sometimes when dry a little white salt hallo or ring is left in the area. This has not been proven to be a problem for me over a year of the model sitting on the shelf (it has not caused the paint to discolor or flake off.
5. I finsih with acrylic paint to cover the salted areas and belend in the dark wash.
Stephen |
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