Wash

My 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!