About dry-brushing

Welcome to the forum, T-Dawg.
For dry brushing, you need to remove as much paint from the brush as you can by rubbing it on a paper towel or similar material. I use an old, flat brush. I lightly draw the brush across the surface of the model, where it leaves just a touch of a lighter color on the surface's high points. Practice is the key. Soon, you'll be able to tell with the first stroke if you have too much or too little paint on the brush.
Hope this helps !

dont DAB! that just forces the bristles down. If you stroke across, it will highlight the higher surfaces.

You could maybe try artist's oil paints... They are much easier to work with when drybrushing, but be aware that they have a rather long drying time (which is really a + as far as I'm concerned because you can always re-work if you're not happy with what you do..). Oils are easy to blend in the base colours, allowing you to get nicer results. Acrylics are probably the worst paints to use for drybrushing, 'cause they dry so fast.. No time to blend them in...

Pix is right. Using an old flat or filbert brush, use light back and forth strokes over the raised detail you wish to highlight. Use the same back and forth motion to remove paint from the brush prior to applying it to your model. Personally, I only put paint on the very tips of the bristles.

Oh...and a big welcome to the forum family!

Gip Winecoff

T

Also, don't try to accomplish the whole drybrushing technique on on application. Sometimes I'll have so little paint on my brush that it almost looks as if nothing was left on the part I was drybrushing. If you get it to look just the way you like it on the first application then great! Just don't be shy about doing it two or three times on the part to get it just the way you like. It might not look like much is going on but trust me, it will accumulate and look great. Practice, practice! Oh speaking of practicing, sometimes just to warm up I'll first practice on the part of the sprue which has the part number tab on it. If I can get the technique down so that just the numbers are highlighted then I know I'm on the right track. Just a little tip. Hope it helps!

Eric

Well, that solves my little problem! Thanks!

Was reading this thread and had a question about dry brushing with oils and dry brushing in general.

Where in the process do you dry brush? Is it after the gloss coat and wash and before you spray your flat coat or is it the last step after the flat coat.

When you dry brush with oils, can you mix in any kind of paint to match the base coat?

Finally, if you goof up, how to you clean what you did and start over?

I am just getting back into modeling and am working on my first kit. I used washing techniques and dry brushed with acrylics and couldn't belived what a difference it made. I would next like to try dry brushing with oils.

Thanks in advance.

QUOTE: Originally posted by cbreeze Where in the process do you dry brush? Is it after the gloss coat and wash and before you spray your flat coat or is it the last step after the flat coat.

Dry brush just before the final flat coat.

QUOTE: When you dry brush with oils, can you mix in any kind of paint to match the base coat?

Enamels and oils will mix, acrylics and oils will not.

QUOTE: Finally, if you goof up, how to you clean what you did and start over?

Retouch the area if possible with the base coat, otherwise, you are in deep doo-doo.

QUOTE: I am just getting back into modeling and am working on my first kit. I used washing techniques and dry brushed with acrylics and couldn't belived what a difference it made. I would next like to try dry brushing with oils. Thanks in advance.

Actually, I always loved drybrushing with old Polly S paints. Blending is not really an issue, IMHO, with drybrushing since the layers of paint should be so light and subtle that they naturally blend with the colors below them.