Dusty Models
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:42 pm
Here's a topic I hope I'm not alone with; I'm pretty sure we all have suffered from this one at some time, willingly or unknowingly... Dusty models... and I'm not talking paint effects here or ForgeWorld powders; I mean the real deal... human skin type stuff
I have some of my models just sat on the shelf in the dining room. Not because of their fantastic painting schemes or marvellous skills, infact most are just undercoated black
But now, after many months, they all have a layer of dust on them. I took a land raider down the other day, while thinking about compiling a new DA list, and saw that my model was a different colour on the top edge. I took another down, a black undercoated one, and the dust was even more obvious on that.
My first reaction was to blow at the stuff, to try and remove it. That was marginally successful in its objective. But there was still a large amount still stuck to the model. I then reached for a large paint brush, 'large dry brush' I think it was, and brushed at the dust vigerously, trying not to snap the ariel and storm bolter off. This again removed some, but not all.
The next thing I thought of was to wet the brush and try to wash the dust off. This turned the dust into a black wash. Something you wouldn't mind having on an undercoated black model, or even one with its 1st layer of colour already done, but not on your finished, Death Wing, Bone White, Land Raider!! Horrified, I grabbed a tissue and started to scrub, trying to dry off the muck, but alas, it didn't shift it all.
I'm hoping that someone in our community has been here before and can help me out. I daren't do any more with them at present till I've sort your council. So if anyone has any advice, just write a comment below, thx.
I have some of my models just sat on the shelf in the dining room. Not because of their fantastic painting schemes or marvellous skills, infact most are just undercoated black
But now, after many months, they all have a layer of dust on them. I took a land raider down the other day, while thinking about compiling a new DA list, and saw that my model was a different colour on the top edge. I took another down, a black undercoated one, and the dust was even more obvious on that.
My first reaction was to blow at the stuff, to try and remove it. That was marginally successful in its objective. But there was still a large amount still stuck to the model. I then reached for a large paint brush, 'large dry brush' I think it was, and brushed at the dust vigerously, trying not to snap the ariel and storm bolter off. This again removed some, but not all.
The next thing I thought of was to wet the brush and try to wash the dust off. This turned the dust into a black wash. Something you wouldn't mind having on an undercoated black model, or even one with its 1st layer of colour already done, but not on your finished, Death Wing, Bone White, Land Raider!! Horrified, I grabbed a tissue and started to scrub, trying to dry off the muck, but alas, it didn't shift it all.
I'm hoping that someone in our community has been here before and can help me out. I daren't do any more with them at present till I've sort your council. So if anyone has any advice, just write a comment below, thx.