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| Topic Started: Mar 4 2010, 11:02 PM (383 Views) | |
| aegisgundam725 | Mar 4 2010, 11:02 PM Post #1 |
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Post your brushing techniques for painting your models. For example: what is your technique to not show brush marks? |
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| Deku | Mar 4 2010, 11:03 PM Post #2 |
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Thin to the viscosity of milk, use perpendicular brush strokes. |
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| aegisgundam725 | Mar 4 2010, 11:20 PM Post #3 |
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Would mixing paint with an acrylic medium help the flow / consistency of the paint? |
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| WenHan | Mar 5 2010, 09:12 AM Post #4 |
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deku is right. you need to thin it( but not to the velocity of milk thats too thin for me) |
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| sunsanvil | Mar 8 2010, 09:49 AM Post #5 |
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Not really. All that is going to do is make the color less opaque (more transparent). It really depends on the brand of paint. Tamiya for example is nearly impossible to brush paint well without being thinned with their alcohol based thinner (X-20), and even then you really have to be careful you don't "overwork" an area. You pretty much have to make one good pass, slightly heavier than you might think, and have faith that it will shrink during the curing (which it usually does pretty well). Vallejo's ModelColor line of paints is quickly gaining the reputation as the most "brush friendly" acrylic paint. Still need to thin with either water or better yet their resin based thinner, but its pretty easy to avoid brush strokes with it. Edited by sunsanvil, Mar 8 2010, 09:50 AM.
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| meadeslemicah | Mar 9 2010, 08:09 PM Post #6 |
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my solution to not show brush marks is "dry brushing." 
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| Deku | Mar 9 2010, 08:15 PM Post #7 |
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Isn't that part of the weather process and it creates even heavier brush strokes? |
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Mar 9 2010, 08:29 PM Post #8 |
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I only dry brush when im doing wathering . But anywhoo If you wanna hand brush with the least amount of brush strokes, Use enamel. It drys slow. so you can correct you're mistakes. the crueing process for enamels is better than acrylics because the paint evens its self out very well if you dont over brush a peice. and the fact that it cerates a skin then cures from the top down unlike acrylics that cure from the bottom up. ( Trust me thats super important) I do even strokes and lay down one coat at a time , and i allow the paint to semi cure then i lay down another coat. But i havent hand painted in eyons. I use a airbrush for most of my painting. ^__^ Edited by GaoGaiGar, Mar 9 2010, 08:30 PM.
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| meadeslemicah | Mar 9 2010, 09:49 PM Post #9 |
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What ya mean by "heavier brush strokes"? I consider it almost the same effort as if i were to paint an even coat of acrylic. Only difference, is the condition of my paintbrush. Edited by meadeslemicah, Mar 9 2010, 09:49 PM.
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| WenHan | Mar 10 2010, 07:58 AM Post #10 |
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he means it will make thicker brush strokes (or at least i think). btw sunsanvil what do you mean impossible to handbrush. Tamiya paints are perfect out of the bottle (the acrylic on that is. The enamel i only use for wash). Mr. Color is impossible to paint without thinning Edited by WenHan, Mar 10 2010, 08:00 AM.
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| meadeslemicah | Mar 10 2010, 11:39 PM Post #11 |
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if he's referring to the thickness of paint layer. It's not that thick in my opinion, about the same again as if I were to apply a flat coat of another paint. |
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| Deku | Mar 11 2010, 01:59 AM Post #12 |
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Dry brushing creates the effect of a brush mark in order to weather parts. I believe it only creates brush marks, not an even layer. When painting, most of the time a dry brush hitting a layer of drying paint can ruin the layer. |
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| sunsanvil | Mar 11 2010, 08:53 AM Post #13 |
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It may just be the way you worded it, but its the other way around. Acrylics skin over first, appear dry to the touch almost immediately, but under the surface remain wet (so they dry on top first, and then slowly dry/cure through to the bottom). This is why when brush painting acrylics you have to be careful not to "over work" an area or you'll end up "cutting through" that fast drying top skin and get the nasty brush strokes. Drying retarders can help extend the working time BTW. Further, acrylic paint, when used correctly, has fantastic self-leveling and shrinking characteristics (ie the cured coat is thinner and tighter to details than when you apply it). Edited by sunsanvil, Mar 11 2010, 08:55 AM.
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Mar 11 2010, 12:19 PM Post #14 |
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acyrlics still take more work to level out. and then there is the chance you might chip the pain off . like what happend to me when i went to clear coat my MG kampher . . and while drying retarders does extend paint time its still a pain in the ass. anyway You look at it enamels are better for handbrushing. and in most cases you can paint right out of the bottle no thinner needed. |
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