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Friday, November 01, 2013

How I apply Dry Brushing

I made this small tutorial on how I apply Dry Brushing for those who haven't tried dry brushing. 

Here are the things you will be needing for this process.
Paint - I always use my Tamiya X-11 Chrome Silver for dry brushing
Paint Brush - much better if you use your old one because you will be intensively brushing it to the part which might ruin your brush if you will your new ones.
Paper - this is where you will be brushing first your paint brush to remove some excess paints before brushing it to the subject.
Lastly is the part you will be applying the Dry Brushing.



If you have your paint stocked for a long time. You should try shaking or stirring for better results of the paint.

Using your paint brush, get some paint. Just a small part because you still be removing most of it on the next step.

On your paper, brush it gently to remove those large amount of paint.

Now, carefully brush it to the subject. The goal here is to brush it on those raised parts of the subject.

Comparison to the unpainted inner frame.
Actually, dry brushing doesn't need to be accurate as for my personal preference. I do it randomly and I don't focus on the perfection of the outcome. Next update will be the completed inner frames dry brushed because I am almost finished doing all of it and some parts of the weapons. That's it for now. Thanks for your time.

2 comments:

  1. Hello!
    Very good your work. For some time I've been following your blog, but I think this is the first time I comment. His care and work in the kits are very good!

    I would like to get me one doubt: Dry Brush after you apply a top coat? Which one? I did drybrush on my RX78-2 OYW, but I noticed that Tamiya Chrome Silver is dropping a bit of silver components.

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    1. Hmmm. I think what you are saying are those what I call "paint flakes". I often experience that kind of situation while I am dry brushing. What I do is I clean my Paint brush once in a while to remove those dried paint on the bottom of the brush. Those are the reason why you are seeing those Flakes.

      About my Dry Brushing sequence. I do it without the top coat. That means I do it on a bare plastic. I don't try dry brushing parts after a Top Coat, because #1 it would waste my Top Coat where Inner Frame aren't that visible to the outer view, and #2 I just don't want to Top Coat it before Dry Brushing. I also think that Top Coat before Dry Brushing would be nice only for the Armor parts not on the Inner Frames.

      I think that's all I wanted to say. Thanks for visiting my Blog. I hope you liked it.

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