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Very nice work - I am building one of these now and I can only hope mine comes out as well as yours.
Your wash looks terrific - how do you do it?
Hey Danny, thanks for the compliment!
To get this look, I used oil washes--I first used an overall wash of raw umber. Then I let that well-dry, and hit it with another wash of a light tan--rwa umber+white+a TOUCH of yellow; this is a nice dust shade. I apply the wash all over the model in a rather thicker application than you might for normal, and just about 10 seconds later I take a crumpled-up piece of soft facial tissue and dab it off. DO NOT WIPE! Only dab--this will leave a lot of it behing. Then take a thinner-wetted brush and immediately start wiping it down, getting the streaks you see here.
The rest of the model then gets a thorough pin wash (a concentrated bunch of little detailing washes) with raw umber and/or rusted shades of burnt sienna, applied around all the details with a fine tipped brush. This gives you nice details jumping out at you!
You can also do additional streaks with the tan mix, or with raw umber/burnt sienna. The key is to work patiently and think "layers"! Too many guys just rus through the weathering process and don't get the depth that a little bit of patience can achieve!
Hope this helps you! Thank you for your comment!

KARL the doog