Planning on weathering a 2 colour cammed (green/sandy brown) veh and am looking for pointers on weathering with oils. I have the paints and the thinner just looking at procedures.
Thanx

the main use of oils for weathering is with a wash.
Take a small glob of oil paint with a toothpick and add
thinner. The mixture should really be tinted thinner.
Oils can also be used for drybrushing. It is somewhat less convenient for drybrushing than for example acrylics, but you can get beautiful and subtle effects by drybrushing with oils.
You just have to take into account the long drying time of oils.
Voila, hope this help

Christian.

11A,

I don't know what you used for your base coat but I would caution you to be careful with the thinner. A "hot" thinner, like lacquer thinner, will lift some enamel base coats. If you aren't sure, test your wash somewhere small and hard to see first in case it eats your base coat alive. It is a tough lesson to learn by experience, trust me...

Shaun

Hi, let me tell you, sometimes i drybush at the same time y finish my paint job, (i only use oils), for example, if i want to create a dirt efect in the coat i usea burn siena color just a bit and carefult to don´t mix it whit the base. I use to apply Washes with oils at the endof the job, mix the oil with with linaza oil, ad apply it, i do not use tuppertine or thinner because they may ruin the paint coat or the barnish.

Bye.