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Wash
🕑 Added 2020-10-12 10:50:34 +0000 UTCMy friends, it's been a rainy Sunday, so it was the perfect time for some quality bench time. The result is a finished pinwash, which I in a shocking turn of events didn't perform with the same enamel Wash for German Dark Yellow like usual 😆 This time I decided to go with oils, a Dark Mud Oilbrusher diluted with white spirit. Why? Hmmm....
To be fair, I finished the airbrushing video on Friday night and wanted to do some modelling on Saturday, but I was stuck thinking how should I approach this model. After a lot of deliberation I remembered my painfully clichéd sentence I say after each wash "the model looks kinda sterile". So I thought, oils need more work, but they blend better than enamels, so I might be able to do multiple tasks with one technique. And it's true. When you're blending an enamel wash, it's "all or nothing", meaning you're not exactly blending it, but rather wiping the unwanted wash away. Completely. That results in that sharply defined "sterile" look of the model. Oils, they blend, like really blend. So when you're dealing with the excess paint, you can blend it on the surrounding surface creating stains, discoloration, local filters, pretty much anything you'd like.
This was great, because I didn't want to use a filter as I really like the camo colors the way they are, and I wasn't sure if I should start with oil dots or pinwashes. This way the model has something like a "general wash" which can be refined later with more precise/darker washes if needed. So next step is going to be some oil dot fading and speckling for that faded texture, and then I'll probably add a darker wash into seams and around hatches, followed with fake highlights and shadows.
And the best thing about oil wash is how easy it is. I did it all with a huge cheap brush from eBay, one of those which I used to blend dust paints over the Crusader base. Yep, oils simply flow a lot better than enamels!
Comments
Night Shift
Well Jagdtigers seem quite popular around here, you're not the first one building it along! 😄 But I'm glad I'm not alone with my dirt collection lol.
Jarrod Houghton
Glad I checked in. Great to see your progress. I am also building a jag tiger that I had in my model pile. This way I can follow your posted videos and end up with a great model to keep. Oh, I also collect dirt from around the word so don’t feel weird 🤣
Night Shift
Thanks, it was apparently used at the end of the war to make the cross harder to spot by the enemy. I posted one historical photo in the new post showing the dark colored cross. I only have one thickness of copper sheet, and I think it's either 0.1 or 0.2 mm. It's very thin so it's easy to cut and bend, and most of the time looks perfectly in scale in pretty much all scales!
Jean Bence
Looking awesome. Why the red in the Balkenkrauz? Never seen that before. Also which diameter copper sheet do you generally use for 1/48 and 1/35 scratch building. I want to get some from Ebay and give it a go. Cheers
