Oh boy.
I think I may have really screwed the pooch this time.
Then again, maybe I should not have attempted my first pre-shading and my first hand painting on the same model.
So after reading around on the forums here, I noticed people saying that to hand brush you should really thin the paints down, which I thought made sense. But I never applied that sense to the pre-shading, which I just kind of slopped on, figuring (hoping) that the final color would cover up the sloppiness.
Oh boy.
Exhibit "A" is my X-plane that I use to test out new paint ideas/colors (why I didn't try the preshading on this first, I have no idea!) This model has really only ever seen an airbrush, so it has a nice smooth finish:
You can see the spots where I lightly brushed on the homemade pink paint mixture and, well, it looks pretty good.
Exhibit "B" is..... is..... Bleh:
While my preshading might make a convincing whitewash, it does not seem to be doing what I wanted. The wing on the left hand side (the right wing) has been painted pink over the pre-shading. Once I saw what it was doing, I decided to only do one wing and see if I could rescue it. I'm wondering if maybe I can just do multiple coats until it looks "good enough," or if it is so far up river that I just need to strip the whole thing down.
Oh boy.
What do you guys think?