Doing some oil washes, they are tedious as fuck but give nice and subtle color variations to the surfaces. Shame I fucked up with too much white, but the good thing of this technique is that everything can be easily fixed.
>>5714029I bought these and the AK-062 (rust and grime or something like that) and I’ll try them after finishing with the oils, the composition of ak washes and mig ammo ones is not only the pigment and thinner (white spirit btw) but they also have stabilizers and other chemical shit. Other than that is as
>>5714058 (excellent work with the shimakaze btw) said, just enamel washes, that you can reproduce with oils and white spirits, but they are ready to use and comfy.
>>5713028The “shadow” behind the decals is a gloss varnish layer, then water and microsol. I thought would need to peel it off and hand paint it and went to bed quite mad at microsol for failing me in my darkest hour, but the little fucker had a surprise for me next morning, it wrapped up nicely around the bolts and only two little zones needed painting. Then covered in matt varnish with the rest of the turret and looks flawless
