Wash.....so close yet so far.
After perusing the various articles on applying washes to models, I have to admit my results are almost 100% improved over my drab old models of yesteryear. (Thanks Swanny and others for your articles)
However, i still have one last little problem to overcome in the process to make things perfect.
My washes create great grungy dirty airplanes, with plenty of smears and such, but I have not perfected the art of removing all the excess wash in order to create CLEAN aircraft.
I use thinned enamels over a FUTURE coat, and a remove excess with a thinner-dipped cotton swab going perpendicular to the panel line.
I can remove about 80% of the excess, but if I go for a clean aircraft I end up doing one of two things. Either I end up wiping out the paint from my panel lines leaving me where I started.....or i actually start to pull up paint from beneath the FUTURE somehow.
Help. I love my oily dirty planes, but i want to try a clean one sometime.
Do I need a thicker Future base? different paint/thinner ratio? Wait longer before I remove the excess? Remove sooner?