Making washes flow better

Johnnyhorse

Johnnyhorse

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I would reiterate, buy a flow aid. Liquitex has one that I use, and I love it so much (I have a bottle dilluted 10:1 Distilled Water: Flow Aid). In addition, something I started doing more recently, is applying a very thin varnish after basecoating so that the washes really slide around on the surface. For example, I mixed some gloss varnish with a silver color in my airbrush when I did the initial basecoat -- followed by a black wash (that I also used Flow Aid to make).
 
MAXXxxx

MAXXxxx

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in most of his videos he does it: paint + glaze medium.
sometimes with alcohol added and on a varnished surface.

on the awesomepaintjob channel the wash is after a gloss varnish, and after the wash it's back with a matt varnish.
 
Ordo Septenarius

Ordo Septenarius

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gilljoy said:
Hey all,

Just seen this video on youtube and I'm just wondering if you's could help me with something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WayXmdyRI9Y

At around 9 minutes he uses washes to black line the miniatures. I'm just wondering how on earth would you go about getting washes to flow that smooth?
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Another thing: In one of this guy's videos, he is working on an Eldar Tank, and does some washes, but then cleans the wash that has spilled over the crooks off with something — does he say "Rubbing alcohol?" I didn't know of this technique (for removing washes). Should the wash still be wet, or at least not dry?
 
MAXXxxx

MAXXxxx

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hi, yes rubbing alcohol or isopropanol, but are good to rewet the paint that`s not fully dry, so you can get rid of it.

I use the vallejo airbrush cleaner for the same purpose. I can easily get rid of paints that are only a few minutes dry, and with a bit more force even those that I mispainted a few hours ago.
 
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