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modulation color
bilbobee
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Posted: Friday, October 23, 2015 - 10:34 PM UTC
Hello, please break down modulation color, its uses and what results you want from them.
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Posted: Friday, October 23, 2015 - 11:31 PM UTC
Hi Philip,

A gtreat deal can be written to answer your questions. In short, I think there are two purposes:

1. To imitate the play of light across a surface, and
2. To imitate that paint is made up of many pigments that can weather differently, even from the same application.

The purpose is to keep a paint finish from looking too uniform.

Here is a good article by Adam Wilder, who now has his own line of weathering and modulating paints ( as seen here Wilder Product Reviews ):
Colour Modulation

bilbobee
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Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - 02:32 AM UTC
Hello, Thanks for the info.
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