What's on my desk? Part 132.
Hello and welcome!
We still have a few hot days coming up. In the morning my door is open to cool off and air out the shop, in the afternoon I close it to keep the worst of the heat out. That means it's a few degrees cooler inside the shop; as if you needed another reason to step inside and take a look around. :-)
Regular visitors will know I have a combined rack from Ammo Mig, comprising both acrylic paints and enamel weathering products. I've made the decision to (for now) discontinue the acrylics and concentrate on the weathering products. So in the near future you'll see a new rack appearing with an extended range of washes, filters, panel liners and pigments!
Which gives me a nice segway into the models, because I've given my T-72 a wash! I've seen photos of Finnish T-72s on manoeuvres and these things got dusty! So I decided to not follow the instructions and apply a Neutral Wash instead of a Dark Wash (the Dark wash is nearly invisible over the black and dark green areas anyway).
Here's a three-step guide on how to apply a wash:
Left to right: 1) make sure you have a nice shiny gloss coat, 2) with a fine brush let the enamel wash flow into and around the details, 3) let it dry for a few minutes and, with a thinner-moistened brush and/or cotton buds, clean up and straighten the lines.
Because I used the Neutral wash, it dries up as a lighter colour, providing a nice base for some dust effects later.
As you can see, washes go over decals. Here's an overview picture of the current state of the tank:
Good news on the Viggen: the Swedish Lightning is finished! The ejection seat and open canopy were done earlier. I still had to paint the bottom air brakes. Last step was painting and glueing the navigation lights:
