{"id":1090,"date":"2012-09-01T11:51:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T11:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2012-08-31T11:52:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T11:52:17","slug":"down-and-dirty-in-neu-celle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/09\/down-and-dirty-in-neu-celle\/","title":{"rendered":"Down and Dirty in Neu Celle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last time<\/a> I airbrushed my collection of 15mm desert buildings with a base coat of Tamiya Deck Tan, leaving them looking rather pristine for a beaten up, backwater colony on Mars. The next stage of painting my Martian desert township of Neu Celle was to give all of the buildings a dark wash to dirty them down a bit. Using my newly rediscovered airbrush (only a cheap and nasty Humbrol model, but good for work like this) I planned to give each building a coat of the new Agrax Earthshade wash (I used to use Devlan Mud for this, Agrax Earthshade is the closest match in the new Citadel paint range). Applying a wash using an airbrush seemed a bit odd, but I read about it in a White Dwarf article once, so it must therefore be a Good Idea\u2122.<\/p>\n

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\nSo I watered down a pot of Agrax (not much, since it’s thin enough already), put it in an airbrush bottle and off I went.<\/p>\n

It didn’t really work. It spattered, ran, pooled … all the things that could go wrong when airbrushing. I’m not sure why, it might have been because I thinned the wash, it might have been my cheap airbrush (but that worked fine last week Tamiya paint). After one building I gave up, reached for a large brush and reverted to old-fashioned methods !<\/p>\n

I slopped the wash on quite generously, making sure that I concentrated on getting the walls darker at the bottom (gravity helps a lot here !) and that there was a nice dark line in the deeper crevices and joins. The photos below show the results while still wet.<\/p>\n