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What should come first - chipping or washing?

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  • Member since
    December 2017
  • From: Pittsburgh, PA
What should come first - chipping or washing?
Posted by Baratheon on Sunday, January 7, 2018 1:45 AM

I'm working on my sd.kfz 251 with an afrika korps scheme and want to weather it as much as I can; lots of chipping and some full body washes to really dirty it up. I'm thinking that you should do the chipping before the washes so that they can be weathered along with the rest but I figured there's no harm in asking before I do a bunch of work just to have it turn out looking strange. 

If you should, in fact, chip before washing as I assume are there any interesting effects to be had by doing them in reverse?

  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Western North Carolina
Posted by Tojo72 on Sunday, January 7, 2018 5:34 AM
That is what I do,blends in the chipping.

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Sunday, January 7, 2018 5:39 AM

If you must do chipping, which persoanlly i am not in favour of in large amounts, i do it after a wash but before dust and dirt effects.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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  • Member since
    July 2013
Posted by steve5 on Sunday, January 7, 2018 1:40 PM

I'm with tojo , the chip's aren't as stark that way .

 

  • Member since
    December 2017
  • From: Pittsburgh, PA
Posted by Baratheon on Sunday, January 7, 2018 5:20 PM

Thanks guys 

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