Drybrushing -- oils or acrylic?

Mostly acrylics anymore, but they dry a lot faster. I still like to use enamels also. Kind of depends the paint available.

When I do drybrush I use oils. They take a long time to dry but nothing beats them for blendablitly...(word?) I know a lot of folks use acrylics but they just dry to fast for me. I use oils for most of the weathering I do except for powder washes ...ect...

Acrylics are the way to go for me right now.....I have limited experience with oils but that could change soon......I just bought a nice set of them

On a lark I decided to do a lil bit a both.

I bought some of those Windsor Newton water soluble oils -- I picked up their olive green and also some ochre as well as a yellowish color. Also some of the thinner stuff they make for their water soluble oils -- you can clean up with water, but thinning is I think best done with their stuff.

I think I'll lighten up the olive a bit with ochre and maybe some of the yellow and see how it works as a drybrush. Got a nice #2 round brush as well. Well, I'll see the results soon enough -- and so will you! I'll post pics of the Mack and howitzer when I am done drybrushing.

I use acrylics. Pretty much because thats what I have and have gotten used to.

Have used both.

Glenn

I dry brush with MM enamels. I have to change brushes quite often, but I like sticking to the paint I use normally.

I have just learned how to dry-brush with artist oils correctly and I LOVE the results I can get. I start by getting some white artist oil paint straight from the tube onto a clean brush. Then I brush off as much paint as I possibly can using a dry paper towel. When there appears to be no more paint on the brush, I dip it into odorless paint thinner and repeat the brush cleaning process with the dry paper towel. Again, once I have gotten off all the paint that I possibly can, I start dry-brushing the model.

If you want to check out the results, take a look at the Pershing on the workbench of my website. Remember to always test a new method out before applying it to your model. Good luck!

I love oils for both drybrushing and washing , they dry slow and are very forgiving as far as blending and fixing due to their slow drying as well . Acrylics dry way too fast for me , I like to look at the model in different light and then adjust it accordingly , acrylic just does not give me that opportunity personally . I learned this by default , as I used to use acrylics or testors religeously before in this dept .!

I drybrush with acrylics and weather with oils.

I use enamels all the time. I tried oils once, and it wasn't a good experience, though it wasn't with drybrusing. I also use pastels. I sometimes use acrylics, but mostly I stick with enamels. though I may try both some day