Oil Washes: The Basics
October 29, 2019 by avernos
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I have oil paints, and thinners but never tried this yet. I could have a nap, or a sandwich while waiting for it to dry!
I watch the football. Or play solitaire
The same oil wash and removal works really well on horses as well and just thinking about it would well on heavily armoured troops in plate and chain
I gave found if you want to use acrylic washes then a coat of future wash on the model followed by the wash gives nearly the same effect
similar, but it will tint down the colour, if you don’t want that changed at all it’s a pain with acrylics as it takes extra work. I like fire and forget methods
A quick note on oil brushes, if you look at regular paint brushes on the cheap you might want to use hog hair. Its really durable and is the honey badger of what you can use. Another note is that precision tip cotton swabs will help immensely at scale when getting small sections.
Can’t believe i missed this vid. Quality stuff Gerry. I’ll have to give this a go at some point
nice one
Thanks!
Just got hold of the materials needed to work on this system. Going to try it out this weekend if the time gets freed up. Just got a bunch of storage put together and now I need to put stuff away and make the hobby area neater. Seriously a big thank you to @avernos for the update.
would this work on 28mm figures as effectively?
yes, any scale, it’s more forgiving than acrylic washes, I used it on my Bolt Action DAK trucks as you can see here https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1279041/
I am also a huge fan for using them on 28mm horses, but I don’t varnish them, the oil stains the colour of the base layer down and you can get fantastic effects off one base colour and an oil wash. I’ll post pics when I get home.
a question 🙂 a long time ago I bought some bottles of “wax” (from “flory”). now on their website I find them called “washes”, still, the instructions that they give are quite similar: brush them all over the model, wait for them to dry (and I am going for @Robert ‘s suggestion and take a nap 😀 ) and then clean them off.
so, what is the difference between flory’s washes / wax and an oil wash? apart from flory’s being “ready out of the box” of course!
@gr1mr36p3r I think Flory’s washes are clay based. I’ve not used either, but the only difference in application is you can use water to clean the Flory ones (if I remember correctly). The Flory stuff and another maker do these clay based ones are again are something I keep meaning to try.
@Robert : well, that would mean Flory’s washes are somehow easier to use… easier to use water than mix White spirit. Or maybe it is just because I never tried it?? 8) I have had those clay washes for a couple of years, never got around to trying them in a *real* project. maybe I should just choose a model I can “ruin” (maybe an old mold) and test… the thing is, you need a medium sized model to have a real effect, and I would feel bad in ruining it. Also, covering it with a gloss varnish can ruin… Read more »
Just give it a bash, and then you can teach me @gr1mr36p3r