Dry Brushing

Horry1

You will have much better luck in the painting or technique forums.

You can also search the forums for keywords and find archived articles.

good luck,

Dry brushing is used to highlight the features on your model. This can be done by using a lighter shade of paint than the base coat or even going to a metallic colour such as silver when drybrushing armour.

To drybrush, load your brush with the paint as you would normally do. Brush 99% of it off onto a piece of cardboard or some other course material. Depending on the end result you want to achieve either use a scrubbing action on the kit or a linear action.

I always use an old brush for this because the results are far better.

Practice this technique on an old kit ... too much drybrushing is not a good thing.

Like Muzzleflash has already pointed out though, if you use the search function and enter "drybrush", you'll get even more info on this technique.

Yep what Shermanfreak said.

I prefer to use Oil paint for my drybrushing. It is easier to blend and has a long working time.

All good points made here. If I could add one thing, it would be the saying, "Less is more"

Start off with with small highlights and examine your piece. Look at it in different forms of light (outside, inside, flourescent etc) Then, if you need to add more detailing, you can.

Good luck!