Brush painting white wash

[Baardmans]

Timtamtung and Kibble where interested in the possibility of painting white wash so why not start a topic on the endeavour?

Well... that is what I consider a failure for the first try.
I do not like the end result at all.
Luckily I decided not to try it on my model!
I had some plastic sheet on witch I experimented with primer and varnishes an decided to use that instead.

Next try different paint, Revell and Vallejo model air white do not cover well.
There are two coats of paint on at the moment.
This I expected for the model air but not for the Revell.
And because it was an experiment I slapped on the paint to thick.

Use a smaller brush, you are going to see the brush strokes and a big brush is way out of scale. It will make painting the tank take a long time!

Use a different hairspray, I used one with strong fixation.
I just received TankArt 2 by Michael Rinaldi and he advised against using strong hairspray.

It was difficult to get the process going. I went from a soft brush and a tooth pick to a knife and a toothbrush to finally see the paint giving way. This might be because of the hairspray.

Getting other white paint will take some time, I can only get Revell or Tamiya locally.
Photo's are taken with my phone so they are not so good I do not have a digital camera jet.
Ill' be back!
Bert

Top is Revell, bottom is Vallejo.

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[Kibble]

That does look pretty neat. Almost like some abstract painting in it self. Not sure why I see it as a black and white photo of water though

Now when you said white wash I was thinking a wash, not just paint being brushed on. Probably could get a better look if you thin down the pain to not see the pain strokes.

[timtamtung]

Interesting experiment. Thanks for taking the time to do this. By the looks of it, using brush paintings for hairspray technique probably won't work as expected because I think the 'wet' paint re-activates the hairspray. I think the effects only work with airbrush because it is 'dry' when applied.

I think I might try Ammo's washable white without any hairspray/ chipping fluid for my white wash.

I will prob also try to see if hairspray technique works with lacquer spray cans.

[Baardmans]

Yes, I know, the name is confusing but it is called whitewash because that is the type of paint they usually slapped on during WW2. " Whitewash, or calcimine, kalsomine, calsomine, or lime paint is a low-cost type of paint made from slaked lime (calcium hydroxide) and chalk (whiting)" from Wikipedia.
It is also washable hence the comment in the former post. But having experimented with this technique I now know it is not that washable.
I will try again with different paint, I'm not done yet.
Hmm I wonder now how latex would look. That i have in abundance!

[timtamtung]

Latex??

[Baardmans]

Latex is the modern equivalent of whitewash.
It is paint based on synthetic polymers an has no latex in it , go figure
It is cheap and we put it on ceilings and walls maybe down there it's called differently.
Because it behaves the same it might work as a replacement.
Ordering other paints will have to wait, my car broke down and i just got a estimate.