Another example of a mistake with the oil wash application – The stencil decals remain soaked with the oil wash after the wash removal.
Author: chikavili
Ultrasonic care
Care, ToolsI’ve been cleaning my old cheap airbrush with any accessible means, but when I laid my hands on an H&S Infinity, I had to provide the best possible care. So I bought an ultrasonic bath. It’s around 50 bucks and if you use an expensive airbrush, it’s worth the money.
Rookie mistakes e.03 – Mind the Gap
Tips and tricksVisible seamlines on prominent places can ruin everything you did and spoil the overall impression of a finished model. Most common places are the center fuselage joint and upper/lower wing parts joint.
Rookie mistakes e.02 – Dirty boy
Tips and tricksThis “dirty boy” maybe looks like another example of overdoing the weathering, but actually it’s a different mistake. Let me explain it.
In order to achieve the effect of dirtiness and accent the panel lines I’ve used the popular “oil wash” technique. The good side of this technique is that you can’t overdo it because you can easily remove the excess oil wash with the oil thinner. But I made a mistake.
Rookie mistakes e.01 – Overdoing it
Tips and tricksWhen it comes to weathering techniques, one of the most common mistakes among rookies is overdoing it. We all want to create that super cool wear and tear effects that we’ve seen on the internet, that make models look aged under the weather and operating conditions and we just can’t refrain ourselves from putting too much of it.
Rookie mistakes – Intro
Tips and tricksI’m not going to post tutorials of how to do something because there’s a bunch of them already all over the internet, created by much more experienced modelers than me. Instead of that, I’m going to cover some of my biggest mistakes that I’ve done during the learning process, in order to help the others not to do the same. So these is going to be some kind of how NOT to do tutorials.
Let’s begin.
Weapons of choice
ToolsMy weapons of choice are two Harder & Steenbeck Airbrushes.
My workbench evolution
ToolsIn the last 2 years, my workbench went through several evolution phases in order to make work comfortable and everything at the reach of hands.