Hey everyone,
i need some help wwith a highlight colour.. Im doing some gear for my Duster. Its painted a few different shades of green to break up the monotone OD, and washed with a reddish brown earth colour.. just wondering what colour to drybrush for highlights.. Thanks


Dave

Hi Dave,

What works for me, as far as drybrushing is concerned, is to apply a slightly lighter shade of the paint on the model. The key is to remove as much of the oil paint as possible from the brush before carefully applying the drybrush. If you have both green and reddish brown (for mud) paint, you might want to dry-brush just on the green sections. What you're trying to accomplish, is a fading of the paint in sections that have been worn. Worn by the crew getting on and off the vehicle, worn by metal on metal, worn by paint chipped off. This will not hold true for mud and dust. What you can do for mud, is to darken some of the muddy sections, and once completed, hand paint a bit of gloss coat mixed with a slightly darker mud, to give the appearance of a slightly wet look, think of wet and darker at the bottom, and dry and lighter colour on top.

A couple of photos of my 48th scale T-34...

Sorry Dave, here are the photos...