dry brushing
S.C. Bodley
Painted main colours with Tamiya Acrylics. When I try dry brushing with
black I cannot highlight the panel lines, rivets etc without smudging
between them. The relief is very minimal. Any suggestions as to brushes,
paint?
SC
Al Superczynski
wrote:
>Is it possible to dry brush raised details on a 1/72 Spitfire (Hasagewa Kit)
>Painted main colours with Tamiya Acrylics. When I try dry brushing with
>black I cannot highlight the panel lines, rivets etc without smudging
>between them.
It sure is possible. Sounds to me like there's still too much
paint on your brush.
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"S.C. Bodley" <ba...@cogeco.ca> wrote
> When I try dry brushing with
> black I cannot highlight the panel lines, rivets etc without smudging
> between them.
It's usual to dry brush in a light colour to raise highlights, and shade in
a dark colour.
Stephen Tontoni
> "S.C. Bodley" <ba...@cogeco.ca> wrote
>
> > When I try dry brushing with
> > black I cannot highlight the panel lines, rivets etc without smudging
> > between them.
>
Are the panel lines raised or recessed? If raised, drybrushing with a
dark color could work. It's extremely challenging and requires a great
amount of patience and practice.
If the panel lines are recessed, instead of dry brushing, thin a dark
color so that it's very watery. Just touch your brush to the
intersection of two panel lines and capillary action should draw the
thinned paint into the panel line. This works much better on gloss than
on flat.
Another thing that I've been doing is dabbing thinned dark color around
panel lines -- over a gloss surface -- then polishing it after that
color has dried completely. I use Novus 2 for that. The color outside
the panel lines will pretty much come off, leaving color in the panel
line.
I do that *after* I decal, and seal the decals in with a gloss coat
first.
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Charles Ryan
most of the carrier, which you don't need/want anyway.
1. Dip your brush into your drybrushing color and brush it *into* the card.
2. Pick a clean spot on the card and continue brushing paint into the card.
3. Pick another clean spot and try brushing what is left in the brush into
the card
If you don't really 'see' any paint coming off the brush this time, brush
lightly over the #s on a sprue. If you don't see anything until after the
3rd or 4th pass, you have just about the right amount of paint on the brush
to continue on the kit.
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Chuck Ryan
Springfield OH