Churchill Mk. VI (semi-quickie)

[Jakko]

The Churchill is now dirty:



This by means of an overall wash of Tamiya Flat Earth, but that does mean part of the shadow effect of the previous wash has been lost. I think I may need to redo that over the dirt, but I'll have to test it out first so I don't screw it up.

The patches of mud have been painted with a dark brown-grey that I mixed by eye, then added a dark wash over. It needs to be drybrushed for highlights, because right now it's more of a dark blob than anything else.

I also painted the parts where bare metal shows (the running surfaces of the roadwheels and the teeth on the idler wheels) with Humbrol Polished Steel. Unfortunately, both tins I have of that are very far gone — as in the paint being almost unusable, not that they've run out entirely — so I really need to find some more.

 

[BarleyBop]

part of the shadow effect of the previous wash has been lost. I think I may need to redo that over the dirt,

Looking very nice, overall muted palette does it for me!
As I'm still learning about washes, I'm interested to see how you resolve the 'issues' that are not visible to me!

 

[Jakko]

The issue is that I had applied a darker wash to add shadows to the model, but most of those have been obliterated by the dirt wash I put over it yesterday. I should probably only have done the shade-wash after the dirt, but the problem then is that it will also go over the decals and darken them, which is why I did it first. I guess I'll have to re-do the shadows now, but a quick test on the underside of the model yesterday gave me the impression that a lot of of the dirt effect will disappear if I try and shade it like I did the whole tank … Which is why I need to do a little more testing first, I think.

 

[Jakko]

So I did test it today, painting the whole of the right side of the hull with thinned Soft Tone again. That was decidedly not a success: the whole dirt effect disappeared. So when it had dried, I put another Flat Earth wash over it again to restore the dirt. What I think I need to do, is apply another wash of a darker dirt colour, but thinner so that it only covers the current dirt in the deeper recesses.

 

[BarleyBop]

What I think I need to do, is apply another wash of a darker dirt colour, but thinner so that it only covers the current dirt in the deeper recesses.

... sounds tricky, good luck. I hate those 'teeter toter'/'wip' situations!