A Quick Watercolour Wash

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Sometimes you want to remove a little of your wash, but you find that the wet cottonbud or papertowel removes too much or all of your hard work.

 

Then you breathe on the model like when you clean your glasses. This is why you must brush your teeth, otherwise your model will stink

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After your breathe on it, wipe it quickly with a dry papertowel. This way you only remove a little paint at a time, and you can control your effect.

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Now I wash the landinggear leg. I point it downwards, and put a lot of water and paint on my little brush. Then I touch the brush to the spot and let the paint run around the leg by itself. A little wash here makes a big difference.

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I dont have to wipe the gear if it is not neccesary. Lets move on to the tail.

 

I will do a different wash here. First I fill the panels lines with paint.

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Then I use a big brush with very thin paint (lots of water) to "wash" the whole wing.

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I then use the thin brush again with some thicker paint ( a different shade here) to fill in some of the rivet lines.

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I then soak up some big drops with a dry paper towel before they can escape!

 

Remeber, you dont have to use this teqnique on wings only. You can use any teqnique on any part. you be the artist and decide.

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Now I use a paper towel to wipe the tail. The towl can be dry or a little wet. You can wipe right away or wait a bit for the wash to dry. The longer you wait the more that wash will "stick". Experiment with this and remeber that if you screw up you just take a big brush with a lot of water and a wet towel and wipe it all off.

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Now I take a wet cotonbud and remove any parts I still want gone. Here I am wiping between the rivet lines, to make it cleaner and nicer.

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The result is a light wash for me, because I did not leave it long, but you can see it has more definition than the other wing.

 

But maybe I am still not finished.

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I still want some more definition on the control surface, so I paint the line in nice and dirty.

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I then roll a dry cotonbud over it to soak up some wet paint, but not all.

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Or I can breath on it if I want to remove less

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And use a paper towel to wipe away where I want. I try wiping in defferent directions for different effects.

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Until I achieve a good result