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| Subject: | Drybrushing yet again |  |
| Date: | Feb 19, 2006 |
| From: | Howard Freeman | |
I'll admit that I like drybrushing. I basecoat in acrylic and drybrush in enamels. And I've ben guilty of doing 'cake frosting' too in my time. I spend a lot of my modelling time looking at old tanks, either in photos or preserved at museums - I'm lucky to live only 60 miles from Bovington Tank Museum in England.
Looking has convinced me that *some* quite serious dry brush frosting is required. A vehicle that's parked out in all weathers fades from the top down, and the originals, and Bovington's runners dirty up from bottom to top. But they still look smooth. The paint fades but in general the finish remains good and doesn't crust which is where my conventional dry brush doesn't get it quite right.
So I'd like some opinions:
On my next effort - a 1/48th Tamiya - I'm planning to spray base coat then Future/decal/Future in the normal way, then go quite heavy on the drybrush, with a contrast light colour on all upper surfaces, tailing off toward the running gear. Then I'll either lightly overspray with an 80:20 mix of base colour and white Or an overall wash of a similar faded finish, to tone the effect down, before a further coat of Future matted with Tamiya flat base to restore the finish and hopefully lose the 'cake frost crusting' and then I'll start weathering from ground up fading it out as I go.
Oh, by the way, this will be a Stug II in Russia so I'll be doing loads of light brown wind blown dust, rather than 'Rastputzia' mud. This will go straight on top with no other finishing over it, so I'll probably do it with my favourite Humbrol Acrylic sprayed on from a distance so it dries on almost immediately.
Has anyone tried this method of weathering and like to share their experiences, or can anyone tell me where my scheme would go wrong please? |
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