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Not having an airbrush and chalk having vanished at the first hint of dullcoat (and it looked SO good) I use artists water based acrylics (including, would you believe, water soluble oil paint) by Windsor and Newton. <br />One great advantage is that if I go too far dunking it in water straight away washes it all off... don't know what would happen to an earlier well dried layer of work, I tend to do most work at one hit... I sit down with one car and a couple of good ales and relax. <br />I've never seen relaxing as one of the guides to weathering but I know it improves my work. <br />I also use a wide variety of brushes from extremely delicate fans to 1/3inch "deersfoot". I find that a fan can be good for getting on a bare minimum of paint in a line... easier than a lining brush. <br />Lightness of touch is one thing. Another is taking off more paint than I put on... that is, start with a well charged brush so that there is paint there to work with then work back to less paint left on the car... can't really say exactly how to do this... practice. Sometimes I put a blob in the underframe and recharge the bristles from there. <br />One thing I use a lot for fading, especially silver/galvanised roofs, is white and near white colours... it just breaks down the reflected light coming back... maybe that's something to remember... the colour you see isn't "colour" it's light coming back to your eye from a surface it's bouncing off of. If the surface is a block of colour you will get a very clear image... break up the colour slightly and the appearance will soften. <br />Look at that another way... I have an EJ&E orange GP38-2, a CNW and a Bankruptcy Blue Rock Island GP 38-2... they all look different sizes... actual diferent physical sizes... which I know they are not. <br />I had some Accurail CNW covered hoppers that were moulded in incredibly bright yellow BUT the right yellow. Don't know what made me think of it but I coated the whole inside of each car with matt black... solved the problem. This wouldn't work with a painted car. <br />Oh yes... paint the car under the same kind of light that you will normally see it under... <br />Good music helps as well...
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