umm, lol, I have yet another question
*not a problem
. This is a painting question. I'm reading about the steps in the painting phase of the building. I know the basics, after the primer coat has dried,
*overnight--or longer
then lay down the base color. After the base coat,
*or coats--you didn't say what you're painting--but a number of thin coats are usually better than one thick covering coat that may obscure detail
you add the thinned down black as the wash, wipe it off, leaving enough in the crevices etc to simulate the 'old age' look.
*this is the badley outdated part---no one really is advised to use a "over-all black wash" anymore, although it does have certain aplications---for vehicles most modelers these days prefer a burnt seinna wash or sienna mixed with black or paynes grey , or depending on the base color, something else entirely. As a rule of thumb a wash should be a darker aspect of the base color, but sometimes it can be far lighter, like using a sandy color to portray dust covering a vehicle and gotten into all the nookls and crannys.
After this comes the dry brushing.
* Maybe, maybe not. drybrushing is without doubt an essential technique to keep in your box of tricks, but has also really fallen out of popularity at least the way it used to be used--building up rather unrealistic color changes on everthing on your model(s)
Then they mention something I am not familiar with at all, it's: 'line out the hatches, air intake, bolts, rivets etc with matt black" does this mean to outline those sections with the black?
* this is refering to what is now always called a pin-wash. This is just a more controled method of applying a wash, it's more restrained, adding emphesis to features pretty much one at a time--and a little at a time. it's very effective and time-consuming.
*Tons have been written regarding the wash, drybrushing & the pin-wash--in fact entire Forum threads exist here at FSM and you can find them using the search feature. Again...more reading---well worth saving you the trial and error
If so, would you outline, say pockets, belts etc with the matt black on uniforms?
* NO WAY This is something that no one does anymore and looks really unrealistic. If you want some good figure painting tutorials they're here too, and elsewere.
Sorry to pepper you all with this questions, I just want to make sure I know what I'm doing..lol or at least have a pretty good idea.
*it's fine--there's just no way to give you a decent answer without going to that kind of trouble --RESEARCH!
Thanks!
Rob