I made myself a wet pallet for this, just to keep the paint from drying out while I was mass painting. I took a pot of Deneb Stone and added a blob (no real measurement done here folks!) of Golden Additives retarder (not the whole schmear though, you never come back from full retard) and a few drips of water. I guess the mix was 2 parts paint to 1 part retarder and 1 part water. That's how I'm keeping it in the pot. As I transferred it to the wet pallet I'd drop a brushful of paint water onto the pallet too. I would then liberally splosh the thinned but by no means less potent mix of Deneb Stone onto the models. I'd say that by now it was the consistency of skimmed milk, but I didn't want to go out to the shed to load up the airbrush.
I'm in a quandary about what to do once the loose weapon arms all have their doses of Deneb Stone. I'm unsure wether to glue the arms on and then apply the wash, or just tape the arms down as I did for the first basecoating and then wash. The things hampering my decision are:
1. If I glue the arms on now, detail will be fiddly.
2. If I don't glue the arms on, the wash may not flow in the right manner when applied.
I will be applying a thinned Gryphonne Sepia wash with the airbrush, with a SMALL amount of flow improver added to get it moving right into the cracks. I'm also considering buying some Golden airbrush medium to help me with this task. Apparently at a low pressure the wash will work as if brush applied when used with such a product. I hope so!
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