Thanks for the comments guys .....
cheers
Brent
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Great work. Is that wash done with oils? The dirt-dust looks very nice 
Hi Greg,
Bit more explanation may help;
All my washes are acrylic based but I don't apply an overall wash at any stage, unless something has gone wrong then I might try a filter to alter a clolour shade.
I post shade (the first wip pic) and use two mixes, one black and one red brown, both with a little ink mixed in to give some it some "tooth".
At a later stage I postshade, which applies pin washes to panel line, around hatches and details and sometimes add some shading to panel edges. Again though it's very selective and uses a mixture of the two washes thinned as required.
Much like Mike Roof's Universal Carrier build log but with acrylics and not oils. The selective wash method is the same. It saves me having to apply a full gloss barrier layer as I view that as an extra complicating step and give me control of the wash build up, I've had some bad experiences with full oil washes ......
https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/210512&ord=&page=11Here's a couple of pics showing the pin washes and shading before the final pigments and dusting.
Also you can miss out the "pre shade" entirely and get much the same effect just with post shading. I tend to add the preshade only with British or US green vehicles. The downside to the preshade is that it requires drybrushing (if brushpainting) out, which can be hard on small details if not careful. This is why I leave many of them off until after this stage.
Hope this is some help ... feel free to ask if not.
Brent
