alright, I need help on white washing. After i paint the base color of the tank do i airbrush the white on the tank? Thanks in advance.
-NERVRECK-

There are many different ways of doing this. It depends on what kind of finish you want to achive.
For a new, fresh camouflage you could use an airbrush.
For a faded finish I use diluted white paint, and brush it on in very thin layers, in down ward strokes.
For a rough, chipped finish, I have used Maskol.
Like so.



For a hastily applied whitewash you can brush it roughly and randomly, but to scale, as if it was done with a brush, rag or something like that.

Cheers
Henk

I'm doing a series of 'trials' at the moment ad one of the conclusions i'm coming to, is that 'Pure' White, should be avoided like the plague. What I am finding is that using an 'Off-White' Acrylic airbrushed is giving some interesting results...Jim

Mine looks completely different from Henk's style

That is a nice looking M4A3 with 105 Howitzer you have there Alan.

Nervreck
For added realism ( he said :-) ) you could add a thick build up off frozen mud and slush along the mud guards and hull and running gear.
Something like this



Cheers
Henk

Nervwreck. Between Henk and myself we have posted 3 different pics of wash. There are many many more examples in the galleries and on the net. To be honest my original technique did not work and the results you see is the final product of me trying to save my original aweful white wash.

I guess what we are all saying is that there is no "right" way to white wash a vehicle. Crews used whatever they could find and did whatever they could with what they had on hand. There was no Mil Spec proceedure.

the type of white wash that i want really isnt that of winter but more like spring, like the paint has turned white because of snow so its actually a smooth look like this
//http://www.missing-lynx.com/articles/german/clwinter/clwinter.htm

I read the link and it seems to have fairly nice step by step instructions. I guess I'm not really sure what you need now since the other article spells everything out for you.

Hey NERVRECK,

I use a really radical method to white wash. Believe it or not I just finish the model, let it sit for a day or so and then use white and grey water color paint. By mixing the grey with the white, you can dull down the bright white to simulate a finish that has been there for some time. The more grey you use, the older the wash looks. After this has dried for several days, I over spray with clear flat to set and protect it and it's done. An added advantage to this method, is that if you are not happy with the wash, wash it off and start over. Hope this helps.

Dave

Hi,

Let me share mine. I use oil paint for my wash. The nice thing about oil is that it's opaque, which means you can see the underlying color (the main color of the vehicle). A real wash is thin paint so this is fair authentic.

I apply a thin layer of oil paint to my model in a downward stroke(signifying that the wash trickled downward) with a chissel brush. Then I take a small brush and make lazy patterns on the wet oil paint (simulating brush marks). I let this dry for a day or two, then spray on an overcoat to protect it. Then, I weather the vehicle with washes and pastels.

Here's a picture of my halftrack given my humble oil whitewash technique:







The finished vehicle in a snow background:





Hope this helps.

Angela