1001 wash question?

For me I use darkbrown + black paint. With a mix ratio of 90 parts thinner and 10 parts paint. A drop or two of liquid dishwashing soap is also added.

It depends on the base color of the vehicle, in general I use burnt umber on tan, sand or yellow base colors and I use black on green or gray base colors.

I like Sepia on Dark Yellow Bases...

Watered down "grimy black" works also. It's from Polly Scale.

do you spray it on or brush it on????

washes are brushed on. i think it's hard to apply wash using an airbrush.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Garry_Gnu washes are brushed on. i think it's hard to apply wash using an airbrush.

having not done it before... do you only hit the places you want to highlight or the whole thing?

Dostacos and Ga.modler, check this:

http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11687

I like to use a red blue and filters then do a wash of black.
My filters are like 95%thinner ( alcohol,water or a spirit type ) and 5% paint and if I use water for my thinner then a drop of dishdetergeant.
Then for my wash I like to mix it a bit thicker for the paint, anywhere from 80% to 90% thinners ( same as the filters for the thinners ) then the rest would be paint.

Either way the liquid mixture is really thin and watery so it goes on really easy, after all that is dried for at least a day then it's time for the pastels.

I almost forgot I also use a brush to apply my goodies, but I now have a crappy single action airgun to use so I guess I'll be trying it out for my small applications.