How to be an Armoured Farmer, building Hobart's Funnies in Glorious 15mm (and maybe 28mm if they arrive in time!)

There are two schools of thought with vehicles, option one is to add a wash and then highlight, which is pretty much what all miniature painters will do because they want their paint job to pop (as is the parlance). The other option is to highlight first and then wash so that the effect is more muted and gritty. It is this second option I will follow, as I will be further weathering the vehicles down and this gives me a head start.

Now for this stage I borrowed my eldest lad’s set of Artis Opus dry brushes, mainly so I could try them out to see if wanted to buy a pair (who am I kidding, they’re a shiny new gimmick, of course I want them!!). I have noticed that they give a more subtle effect overall but still with good edge highlights.

As these are going to be weathered I am not so worried about going too far with the highlights. The brushes themselves come in a wide variety of sizes and i bounced through them all to get into all the areas i wanted to address. They are very soft and with a rounded finish and whilst they produced a really nice effect I did notice a lot of initial bristle loss (but maybe i was still doing it too hard).

The process is the same as for normal dry brushing but they also provide a small pad that you very slightly moisten and when your brush runs out, instead of loading it again, you go to the pad and reactivate the remaining paint on the brush to use again. This has the effect of stopping your brush clogging up but also gives a really subtle transition when used to blend in the dry brushed areas. The kit also comes with its own MDF board to dry the brush on before use, but as this was not my set i used an offcut of hardboard instead.