There are a whole new range of Citadel paints, for the benefit of those who have just landed from the International Space Station. One of the new ranges is textured paint. I tried the dark brown for adding mud to AFVs - see above.
In comparison to Tamiya paste sticks:
Plus
Much easier to apply as you can paint it into difficult to get at places, such as behind the bogies of this tank.
Dries hard and sticks well.
Minus
I was surprised how much it shrinks when it dries. I really caked it on the front of this Sherman.
Hmmmm... I may give this a try. I use the Tamiya sticks but its really hard to apply properly and it seems to take forever to harden. I may pick up a tub of this texture paint and experiment with it. Thanks for the heads-up!
ReplyDeleteDear Lee
DeleteThe Citadel stuff dries v. quickly but shrinks down.
J
Quite a clever idea. I was probably going to steer away from the texture paints for basing, but this may be a good quick and easy way of adding mud to tanks
ReplyDeleteDear Courtney,
DeleteIt's worth a try. They do a couple of colours.
J.
Buy the paint - but avoid their brushes like the plague!
ReplyDeleteDear phil
ReplyDeleteI use W&N for painting but cheap child's brushes for stuff like this. It wrecks decent brushes.
First time i've seen the textured paint being used and I must say it looks pretty good. Particularly at this scale. Odd then that GWs own scale is much larger, and so I doubt it would work quite as effectively on their own kits!!!
ReplyDeleteDear Oink,
ReplyDeletetrue,
J
I might give this a try to. I'm still practicing with Tamiya weathering powder.
ReplyDeleteGreetings
Peter
http://peterscave.blogspot.com/
The citadel stuff is very easy to use. You just paint it on.
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