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  • Member since
    January 2009
  • From: Austin, TX
Posted by smeosky on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 2:53 PM

I do a bit of acrylic drybrushing over acrylic base coats. First off, if the base coat was airbrushed on w a laquer thinner (tamiya's yellow cap thinner) then you have a way more robust layer underneath. Other paints have different adhesion abilities and may stay down better, like Vallejo's. If it was brush painted on then a flat acrylic clear coat like Vellojo's flat clear would definitely prevent the base coat from coming up. Last thing to remember is when doing the dry brush coat you dont want the paint too thin and you HAVE to use an acrylic retarder to keep it going otherwise it will paritally dry and you will have a mess. Hope this helps

Steve

  • Member since
    September 2016
Dry brushing acrylic on acrylic
Posted by twodollarcoin on Monday, January 9, 2017 8:31 PM

Gurus, 

Getting slowly back into scale modelling. Youtube and this forum have been a great help, unfortunately I am a little stuck.

This may be a stupid question: can you dry brush acrylics over an acrylic base coat?

I'm having issues getting dry brushing to work on my current project, Academy's 1/48 F-14A. I've airbrushed a coat Vallejo acrylic black on the ejection seats (without priming) with the intent of weathering them a little with a dry brushed coat of grey. Unfortunately with both Tamiya and Vallejo acrylics keep lifting the base coat.

Thanks!

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