Well I've been doing a lot of reading and experimenting on weathering my Freight cars one of the books I have been reading says," that they use black and brown india ink mixed with rubbing alcohol for weathering the brown for warm colors and and black for cold colors" that I should use a cheap brush as the alcohol destroys good brushes I dont really like the idea of useing alcohol for this ,, I've tryed useing plan rubbing alcohol for removeing oils and preping a cars surface for painting and found the alcohol softned some of the paint and made it bubble up not a very good detail I might add . glad it was a gondola that wasnt in good shape to begin with my test and practice freight car, I have since began useing hand soap with no mositureizers or oils in it and warm water with a tooth brush for this with much better results. also I make sure that I wash my hands throughly so that I dont leave finger prints on the shell of the freight car . Ive also found useing the acrylic paints that if I mess up on the weathering or detail as long as I didnt use a clear coat I can use warm water and soap with the tooth brush to start over again with out too much trouble. sorry if the statment above is long but I found the more info I on my perparations the better response I get. My question is useing acrylic paints what mixture or paint to water ratio for a weathering wash works for the rest of modeling community?? I have some polly scale paints as well as creamcoat paints so please include the type of paint and mixture ratios please? [ 11 March 2002, 17:00: Message edited by: Wolv_Cub ]
I think that the paint to water ratio is more pure choice /chance than anything else.I usually use enough paint to colour the water then add more paint from that point. If I am drybrushing the weathering colours I use the paint straight from the bottle/tube.
