Re: [FT] More Thrust Cover

On 2/26/99 7:35 PM John Crimmins wrote:

>I suppose that Jon would be the best person to ask this of, but someone
>else might know the answer as well: How was the ship on the cover of
More
>Thrust painted?  The panels are far too smooth, and the lines seem far
too
>regular, to be the result of drybrushing.  My guess is that the panel
lines
>were individually picked out, either with a brush or a fine-point pen,
but
>I am hoping otherwise.  I could manage that on a *few* ships, but doing
>that to an entire fleet would drive me mad--and I really like the way
that
>it looks.

I'm not Jon but some of my recent paint jobs on FT minis comes out 
looking about that smooth.  I start with a base color, use a watered
down 
ink in the panel lines and then slowly dry apply dry brushing (about 
three to four levels) starting with the base color and progressively 
getting lighter.  The secret is to go over the same area with multiple 
strokes of the same color.  Each stroke is so light (in touch as well as

amount of paint) that it takes a number of them to deliver any
noticeable 
color to the area in question.	With this gradual build up everything 
seems to gradually blend and look a bit more nature in effect.

I realize that I've just described the basics of dry brushing (sorry to 
those who got bored) ;-).  I found my most common mistake was trying to 
rush the dry brushing processes.  Once I slowed down things seemed to 
fall into place - that and the brush manufactures love me as I'm going 
through brushes faster than ever now.

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