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Thank you all so much for your very kind and confidence building comments. I am very new to this and I have only used my airbrush kit for solid colours until now. This was all free hand and incredibly stressful but I loved every second of it.
I completely covered the primer with the yellow, then the green, and finally the red/brown. In my opinion I should have left more yellow showing, but one learns from ones mistakes. Thank you again, you have encouraged me to paint my Chally 2 now in the British battle colours of green and black.


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Kiaser wrote:If you have your tiger 1 matt sealed your camo work is protected you can not go wrong with enamal washes you can always wipe of if your not happy and start again .

Bottle of white spirits to clean your good to go .

Thanks Kiaser. Do you mean spray the whole tank with something like the Humbrol Matt acrylic varnish and then weather after that?


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Kiaser wrote:Yes she needs a coat of matt clear to protect the camo

Thank you, that's what I will do then


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Kiaser wrote:Here is what I found exceptionally well to use and cheap it will last your tank building life you can buy similar at your hardware or arts and craft supplies outlets

Thank you very much Kiaser, I will get some of that or similar


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There have been a few recent problems up there in the north with 'frosting' of the clear coats.
No one has really got to the bottom of it.
I also use a very good quality can of matt seal used in the art world for preserving paintings.
Huge can, proportionately cheaper than the smaller hobby pots.

Cover your final finish(as it is now) with your seal coat, then you are free to go as hard or as soft as you need with the weather compounds.

HERMAN BIX wrote:There have been a few recent problems up there in the north with 'frosting' of the clear coats.
No one has really got to the bottom of it.
I also use a very good quality can of matt seal used in the art world for preserving paintings.
Huge can, proportionately cheaper than the smaller hobby pots.

Cover your final finish(as it is now) with your seal coat, then you are free to go as hard or as soft as you need with the weather compounds.

Much appreciated advice, thank you very much


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hmmm if you want to apply washes it needs to run easily over all the surfaces of the tank, a matt surface will not allow for this, for washes and oils your much better off applying a satin or gloss vanish, this lets the washes run easily and will still protect the base coat. If you wanted to only seal the tank in matt then this will be fine for filters applying decals chipping etc..for washes or oil's I'd definitely recommend a satin or gloss.

heres a basic painting guide..

Priming
base colour
highlights
sealing(this could be any varnish.. satin, matt )
decals
chipping
Filters
sealing(gloss or satin)
washes
oils
mud dust

this is a basic guide and does not include more advanced methods such as pre shading but gives you a general idea




Jake

Jake79 wrote:hmmm if you want to apply washes it needs to run easily over all the surfaces of the tank, a matt surface will not allow for this, for washes and oils your much better off applying a satin or gloss vanish, this lets the washes run easily and will still protect the base coat. If you wanted to only seal the tank in matt then this will be fine for filters applying decals chipping etc..for washes or oil's I'd definitely recommend a satin or gloss.

heres a basic painting guide..

Priming
base colour
highlights
sealing(this could be any varnish.. satin, matt )
decals
chipping
Filters
sealing(gloss or satin)
washes
oils
mud dust

this is a basic guide and does not include more advanced methods such as pre shading but gives you a general idea




Jake

That is fantastic, thank you very much. The more YouTube videos I watch or things I read, the more I get confused. This certainly simplifies things


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The trick with acrylic washes is to get some water on a clean brush and soak the area you are working on, then dip a separate brush into the wash colour and dab the wet surface. It will then flow over the surface and into the recesses, welds etc.

It works like a charm and you use a lot less of the wash colour.

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