251st Independent Mechanised Brigade
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So the wife and child are out at a party, I am getting ready for a night shift on a payday weekend which means I will be muppet herding later on (small bonus it’s a hour shorter thanks to clock magic, don’t forget to set yours a hour early if your reading this on Sunday and you totally forgot).
so I thought I would sit down and do a oil wash and maybe a very mild tutorial for those who never tried.
Set yourself up, this isn’t a quick five minute jobby you need a hour or two to do it half decently. So get a beverage be that tea/coffee/ beer or a fine Shiraz. Then choose something for background noise obviously being this is on the BOW/OTT site your have a plethora of videos to distract you, personally I chosen this time for some Rammstien, for those of painting something chaotic I would recommend Barbra Streisand to really connect to the chaos gods as they love themselves a bit of Babs
First off tools, I use a cheap pound shop brush to mix as hey if it falls apart meh it’s a couple of pence. For the love of god do not use your parents/loved ones £30 Winsor and Newton sable brush for any of this I’m talking to the younger audience but there will be some one who has survived to adulthood and will do something that stupid. I have a GW wash brush but there are other manufacturers out there, a dry brush, a cotton wool bud or Q-tip for the septics and then the foam from a blister pack or if you haven’t any of it again pound shop and a washing up sponge.
So you will need some artist oil paint, oderless White spirt/thinner in this wash it was a 50/50 mix of the black and brown, 10 to 15 ml roughly of the spirit mixed to a consistency of a very thin milk, then once happy you apply too your model on the bottom of said model in this case the tank hull, that way if it’s your not happy with it it’s not ruined the model. A word of note, it is preferable to have a varnish coat on the min beforehand as it makes cleaning up and pin washes so much easier but it can be done on a uncoated mini.
As you see trying it out on the bottom. I will continue this later on this evening but I’m having to leave for work at this moment.So the joy with a oil wash is you have several hours of play time before it drys and to a certain time frame you can reactivate it with the White spirits to try and clean it up if you’re not happy with the results, also while a bit of a pain to get it right it’s a lot cheaper in the long run than say GW washes as you get more bang for your buck for the same price of one tiny wash pot. With the wash start of small and work up to bigger surface areas using the wash brush, now I cant give you exact how much to load in your brush as it’s a personal preference and what your putting it on, but the general rule of thumb is don’t slap it on as you have more to remove as you clean up. Personally I start of doing the large wash surface bits such as the fins at the bottom of the hull for example, then using the dry brush I remove the excess giving it a clean in the White spirits intermittently and a good dry on some old but clean skiddies so your not just spreading oil wash as you carry on, you can use the foam/sponge to do the same thing. Now the buds will be used when you need to do smaller clear ups say after pin washing the rivets or in the case of the engine bay where I used the AK interactives engine oil enamel wash. Once I have done more of the washing I will post more pics
So a small note, so as you can see I was mixing the oil paint and the spirit and it wasn’t mixing at first, turned out I had grabbed the surgical spirits I use in a different weathering technique instead of the White spirits. So make sure you don’t do the same, or get a grown up to do it even if your 38 years old as even at that age your still going to need mum or dad to make sure you not being a idiot 
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