Ready for weathering effects! (Patreon)

My friends, yesterday I finished the basic winter coat with a round of pin washes and mapping. Today I edited the video and I'm ready to continue tomorrow with chipping and rust effects! 

The washes used were Winter Streaking Grime and Wash For Interiors, both from AK. I planned a similar approach as on the Pz 38 - lighter wash on the white parts, darker one on the green ones. However, the model's surface kinda required to mix them together depending on the type of detail I was outlining, which led to some pretty neat results. I also applied them in a very messy way so I could feather them outward, creating various stains of dirt, discoloring and post-shading the white wash. I even streaked them down the sides of that huge turret. 

This created a great foundation for mapping. Washable White is ideal for this task, but I had to resort to ordinary white from Vallejo. You gotta thin it down a lot and quickly blend the random patches with tap water - you got maybe 3 seconds before the paint bites into the surface and then it'll leave a tide mark. No need to use drying retarder because you don't have to be very precise, just quick :) 

I believe a winter white wash is a specific type of paint job where it's hard to tell where basic painting ends and weathering begins. What's for sure is that this is a type of finish that involves several techniques, it's not just spraying a coat of white and chipping it down. Dark pinwashes and mapping are equally as important, both adding greatly to the muddled look of a winter camouflage!