Very interesting guys. I'm still wary of using food type products, but I may try a little bit with some white paint added to the mixture and leave it by a window for a while and see if it yellows are draws attention from any unwanted "guest".

To Trifon
thanks man,really inspiring reply. i'm planing to make such a tutorial to share some of my experience.
I use zippo fule for filter and washes, it's clean and dries really fast. mineral spirit on the other hand, dries too slow. i don't like waiting.
A good plan can be truly helpful

Hi Jeremy, don't worry that “turing yellow” problem too much, that mixture is really
easy to remove. Even if that problem do occurs, just clean it and add some new.
just have fun

thanks guys.as some of you asked. I just made a simple step by step tutorial about how to gain a good looking whitewash paint.
here we go
First, u must have suitable tools and paint.


2 brushes at least. make a smaller brush by cutting the front hair
remember to use animal hair brush, nylon ones are too hard for this


with these stuff, we can start to creat winter camo

in step 1. DO NOT USE Tamiya's paint as base color.



in step 4,dip some water with larger brush and scratch these areas, be cautious when this small chips appear, cos water can run into the gaps between hairspray and the basecoat, melte the hairspray rather easily. so be gentle and make scratches little by little. until u achieve the wanted result.

after making bigger chips, use smaller brush to make tiny chips
always remember to remove extra water in time with napkin paper. otherwise, it will leave ugly white spots after dries.


now u have already gained a nice looking
add more small chips by using a super fine brush and sponge method afterwards.
In general, we should always be patient and observe real pictures before painting. Combining different techniques and it's easy to gain such look.


that's it. I hope my sharing can be helpful. thank u guys

That was a great mini tutorial!
One question, what are Gaia paints?

it's the same kind as GSI/MR hobby's color.
google it, or find it on ebay

Great build! I love the look of the winterketten.

BTW, nice Armorama email count

Thanks a lot for the outstanding Step-by-Step explaining the whitewash technique!
Your model is looking VERY sharp, I'm looking forward to the additional groundwork....

Keep the pic's coming please, best regards, John.

thanks man, oops that's maybe just a system error，i mean about my count.

hi John. thanks for the reply. i'm just working on that base.
more pics will come

hi all. here are some pics about base building





spray primer before painting. as russian earth is kind of dark blackbrown, use xf52+xf1+xf64 to paint basecoat
then add pigment of different tones

hi there, quick report
finished one of the figures

Nice thread!

I'm doing a Panzer 3 N also. Keep up the good work.

You have Outstanding modeling skills, Its a Very Cool build. Thanks for shareing. milvehfan

Thanks for sharing, makes me wanna do a winter dio as well, haven't done one before. I can get alot from your thread

Impressive work on the figure as well.

Thanks milvehfan

HI Dinggo
thanks for the comment.
Then just do it,It's a lot of fun

Hi Eric, great build mate, I really like the look of your panzer, nicely weathered. Great that you're doing an SBS on the hairspraytechnique too. For some of us it comes in handy.

Now one remark though: in your SBS you mention not to use Tamiya colors as basecolor...why not exactly?

I'm finishing my Dragon kit 6600 Tiger I and did a whitewash with the hairspray tech using Tamiya paints and it worked out fine to be honest

Anyway, looking forward to the finished dio

Cheers

HI wouter
thanks.
tamiya's paint will dissolve in water more or less,so when rubbing the surface hard with brushes, some of the basecoat will fall（i got some bad experience）
well using acryl paints for basecolor is ok, by spraying a matt varnish.
so to avoid this problem, i just use natrolac paint(GSI Gaia)

All I can say is "wow". You, sir, are VERY talented in all areas of this art. Fantastic work!

I don't know why I didn't catch this and now it is too late for your kit; but I grind up wet foam or florist's foam and mix it with white paint. This achieves a moderate representation of snow and it doesn't yellow, ever.

Great work!!

Great work on the figure! Can't wait to see this project fall together

I've never seen those Gaia paints before, but we have the others here.