Finally laid down a decent wash.

results....I then tried using some oil paints with Turpenoid as a thinner. What a difference!....This is over an acrylic base coat.>>

Are you referring to artist's oil paints in a tube, or.....? I've looked at those, and they seem prohibitively expensive for the use they would get. I've used acrylic washes over acrylics and a Future clearcoat, and maybe I've just gotten lucky the few times I've done it, but the results were acceptable. FWIW, I use windshield solvent as thinner as opposed to water. But, as everyone should, do what works best for you.

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in article snipped-for-privacy@mb-m28.aol.com, Disco -- FlyNavy at snipped-for-privacy@aol.comDOH wrote on 2/18/04 10:14 AM:

I use artist's oil paints in a tube. They last for years, literally. I apply the wash over Future and I thin it with lighter fluid (I suppose rubber cement thinner would work as well--they are both about the same SG grade naptha). It won't harm the Future.

Cost of the paint is negligible since they last so long. A couple of tubes of Burnt Umber or Payne's Gray won't cost much at all and should be all an average modeler would need.

MB

What about us less-than-average modellers - what do we need? :)

RobG

Milton Bell wrote of Burnt Umber or Payne's Gray won't cost much at all and should be all an

Practice!

No.... that's how you get to Carnegie Hall......