Can someone pls give me a good recipe for a wash to use on bringing out detail, running between cooling fins on engines a/c engines and in panel lines. Plain black usually looks fine on engines, but I've never been happy with any of my experiments with washes for cockpits and panel line and just plain dirtying up a war weary bird. It's always either an unnatural-looking color, or I get the thinner/paint ratio all wrong, or it simply doesn't look natural
I don't have any oil paints because I haven't yet learned how to integrate them into my model making, nor how to use them at all. I remember my mother having to use linseed oil and thinner and all manner of things to make the paint flow right in her oil paintings. Anyhow, to the original point, I needs myself a good wash recipe using common paints and thinners and reliable ratios of same. Thanks in advance.