Dust made from oils!
Added 2022-12-01 19:52:51 +0000 UTCMy friends, here's the finished technical, and it was plagued by some, ahem, technical difficulties along the way π
I haven't tried oils for dust effects before, but I've seen some awesome results by other modelers, so I wanted to try them out. Enamels are ready to use, but here you have to wait for roughly 4 hours before the linseed oil drains on a cardboard palette. It's a matter of preparing them in advance, or a nuisance, depending on your point of view. Blending is very similar to enamels, although oils lead to much smoother results, just as expected. But what can really bog you down is the drying time! I can get a 3-layered mud effect done in one session using enamels, but with oils, some of the paint was still "fresh" on the next day. So the only way to add some extra tones here and there was using the speckling method. That's the only way to apply the paint without touching the model, after all.
My takeaway from this experiment is that oils are pretty sweet for weathering, but you need to prepare them in advance, and you need to have a lot of time in between layers. My best bet is that I might combine them with acrylics or enamels in the future, but honestly, I could've achieved a more dramatic effect with enamels in a fraction of time. But hey, the subtle weathering works pretty well on this one!
Next? A rocky mountain road in Afghanistan and two Taliban fighters for the scenic base!
