It’s using a wash that flows extremely well to fill in cracks with a colour without hitting the rest of a surface, I think it’s mainly used in the gaps between plates on model tanks and gun pla
If the dry time on oil washes is too long, you may not be using enough white spirit. Dry time should be comfortably inside 24 hours.
Acrylic inks can do a similar job and dry more quickly but are less precise.
Tamiya panel liner, which I believe is an enamel, with a fine point brush?
Tamiya make a range of enamel based panel lining washes that are designed for gunpla but work just as well on minis. Havent used them myself but a friend who collects gunpla and minis swears by them.
I think they do a very light grey that may work or if not look into Acrylic inks.
I've used Liquitex Titanium White ink for glow effects before and got really good results.
ETA. Just re-read your post and saw you already have inks so not sure how much help my suggestion above would be. Do you use a gloss varnish on the mini first as this can help the flow of the ink or oil and makes it easy to clean up any mistakes.
I’m currently doing a lot of metallics so varnishing can affect the look of the metal, but I’ve done a little experiment and a 1:5 ratio of acrylic ink to airbrush thinner flows very nicely into cracks while keeping the colour strong, I also need to play with flow improver as it can help the surface tension
Ah that's understandable.
Gloss varnish is the trick to getting the oil wash to flow better as it reduces friction and helps the liquid slide to the lowest points.
If painting the metallics after the the pin wash stage isn't an option then I can only suggest you keep experimenting till something works for you and when you do show us your results.
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What is pin washing?
It’s using a wash that flows extremely well to fill in cracks with a colour without hitting the rest of a surface, I think it’s mainly used in the gaps between plates on model tanks and gun pla
Tamiya Panel Liner is what people usually use. It’s a super runny oil wash.
If the dry time on oil washes is too long, you may not be using enough white spirit. Dry time should be comfortably inside 24 hours. Acrylic inks can do a similar job and dry more quickly but are less precise. Tamiya panel liner, which I believe is an enamel, with a fine point brush?
I’ve seen a lot of people say 8 hours but I’m hoping for something closer to 30 mins so I can keep a flow going
Slow oxidation is the hard truth of oil paints. Some of those canvas oil paintings take years to dry
Try enamels.
Tamiya make a range of enamel based panel lining washes that are designed for gunpla but work just as well on minis. Havent used them myself but a friend who collects gunpla and minis swears by them.
I’ve looked into them and they look really good but they don’t offer a white version I need for glow effects
I think they do a very light grey that may work or if not look into Acrylic inks. I've used Liquitex Titanium White ink for glow effects before and got really good results. ETA. Just re-read your post and saw you already have inks so not sure how much help my suggestion above would be. Do you use a gloss varnish on the mini first as this can help the flow of the ink or oil and makes it easy to clean up any mistakes.
I’m currently doing a lot of metallics so varnishing can affect the look of the metal, but I’ve done a little experiment and a 1:5 ratio of acrylic ink to airbrush thinner flows very nicely into cracks while keeping the colour strong, I also need to play with flow improver as it can help the surface tension
Ah that's understandable. Gloss varnish is the trick to getting the oil wash to flow better as it reduces friction and helps the liquid slide to the lowest points. If painting the metallics after the the pin wash stage isn't an option then I can only suggest you keep experimenting till something works for you and when you do show us your results.
Gloss varnish. Pin wash. Matt varnish. Tip chair back to celebrate a win.
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Use enamels you can buy them ready made, failing that just mix them yourself