Beginner's Guide to: Weathering with Oil Paints! (4 Great Techniques!)

Frequently asked questions in the description! I hope you guys find this helpful!

Is it also possible to thin down the oils with the tamiya X-20A thinner?

Hi i have email colors from revell. can i use oil paints to weather or do thdy destroy my colors

Great no BS video. That soldier was amazing.

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I just airbrushed an armor model (1/35) with craft acrylics (I am doing a test with them, i usually use Tamiya acrylics.)

Can i apply your technics the same way on it?

Thxs

Nice tutorial, specially the tip about putting oils on a cardboard before mixing them with the white spirits.

Acrylic paint isnt affected by white spirit once dry and depending on what you are doing, a gloss varnish allows the oils/enamels to flow around details better

Hi i have just two questions i saw on the internet that its posible to do squash efect whit tamyia and few drops of thinner and the second question is how to apply decals? Thank you for any response and btw great video

Can you use any substitutes for white spirit, such as rubbing alcohol?

thank you for this video, I'll have a go tomorrow

I have tested a few flat varnishes for a base coat to do oil weathering on and I can confirm that XF-86 works great, it's the best for oils that I tested yet. I thin 1 part xf-86 to 2 parts mr color leveling thinner for the best results. Thinning with Isopropyl Alcohol leaves it chalky and thinning with X20A leaves it rough and blotchy. Mr color leveling thinner has the absolute best result with xf-86. As far as using oils over it, it's great, the oils grip well to it and they level out, even out and blend beautifully on it. I've used other flat varnishes that were just a little too smooth and trying to blend oils was very difficult be cc'd cause they would just slide around too easily. Xf-86 doesn't have this problem. The quality of the surface you're putting oils on is just as important as the quality of the oils themselves and your technique. Using the wrong surface can give you lots of headaches but using the right one makes it easy and fun.

If you use odorless thinner instead of white spirit or zippo fluid, you do not have to varnish the surface as long as the paint is cured. In fact, it does not damage the decals either although you may need to locally varnish to blend in the decal film. Eduard decals, when the film is pulled, do not need any protection. It not only saves time and varnish but the paint surface reacts nicely with the oil paint. This technique definitely works wth an acrylic paint base.

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An cloudless spirit with an awful smell.

great tecniques! thank you

can i use AK varnish??

Winston newton is cheap

Sir hi, please tell me in what ratio do we apply Matt or Gloss varnish mixed with water to our models ? Do tell me.

Very informative and helpful, thanks for sharing

Nice Toutorial! Helps me a lot. I'm building models for over 16 years and never tryed some ot the techniques u are presenting here.

Did you use some 1/48 planes in their , because I don’t yet have a grasp of how big they are

As someone who's new and have lil to no idea about paintings/paints,
Can I not use Enamel colors for panel line washes? does white spirit not help wipe out the enamel colors?

Will this work with acrylic tube paint

Morning, after one applies a wash should you clear coat before the streaking??

I`ve invested in a bunch of Abteilung 501 oils but haven`t used them yet. A bunch equals roughly 30 tubes. So are they any good?

Super nice tutoriel. Just a silly question, when blending for the shadow or the streaks, is the blending brush dry or dipped into white spirit ?

Good tips but no matter what I do i cant seem to replicate the results. I guess it just takes practice.

What colour did you use on the bottom of the aircraft?

Very nice tutorial, I will just add two tips. First, not go cheap with oil paints. Better oil paints are expensive indeed, but only for artists, because we as plastic kit modelers use typically such a miniscule amount that a single tube will probably last forever. The second tip, instead of using artist's white spirit which can be expensive and difficult to get by, there is a good alternative of using zippo fluid (for lighters). It has very practical packaging for dispensing small well controlled amounts, it works well, costs almost nothing (like 2 USD per 5 oz) and is available pretty much everywhere.

cotton buds are OK for clean up if the wash is properly dry - several hours - and the strokes are perpendicular or say 45° to the panel line. Don't press hard, do five light strokes instead of one hard one.

I really have to thank you, I'm stsrting om the scale modelling world and Oil weathering and weathering by itself looks really complicated. But your video makes it look fairly simple and breaks it down enough so even a rookie like myself can actually fe motivated to try these effects out.
I'll be sure to try these, thanks and great video!

"white spirit is an odourless spirit with a pretty awful smell"......... REALLY!!!!!!

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Isn't white spirits similar to mineral turpentine? So White spirits won't dissolve the varnish?

Thanks for sharing your skill....this great....btw what is "White Spirit" ?...is they thinner or what?

Amazing. Thank you. Very inspiring. I bought a set of oils from hobby lobby. I want to try this out on my Red Baron Fokker Dr.I. thank you again.

Thank you thank you thank yoy

Finally a spot -on , simple,ordered and easy to follow tut. Can you please make a few more regarding wwathering with oil paints ?

Just tried this and damn near stripped all the paint from my model! I guess u cant do this technique with enamel paints and humbrol clear coats? Or did i do something wrong?

what do you clear coat over oils with?

Best video I’ve found on oils!!
I’m going to use them on my Tamiya 1/32 Corsair!!!
Can’t wait to get to that stage!

Hello! I have a question about oil paints and washes based on them.
I have come across models where these techniques were used and they were greasy in touch, even though it had been weeks since they were completed. Several of my friends have also encountered the problem that the satin/matt varnish applied at the end of the work cracked where it came in contact with the oil paint (even if they applied it after few days of drying time). Here, from what I've known it's because oil paint can release gaseous substances over time and that may be reason for this happened. I paint mostly miniatures for gaming purpose, sometimes something for dioramas (and I want to try some scale models) and have never used oil paints before. I would like to expand my workshop with them. However, I'm afraid to have similar experiences I mentioned above. What could be the reason for such greasy feel and cracking of the paint applied on oil paint? How to prevent this from happening? Have your models also become greasy to the touch after years or do you not have this problem. Can oil paint react with paints applied previously? Please help :-)

Thanks for a nice primer on weathering. I'm working on a USN catapult launched Kingfisher OS2-U 3 in "bright sea blue" livery. Can you make recommendation regarding colors/technique to imitate the whitish, chaulky look of sun-damaged dark blue paint?

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Cardboard you say, hmmmmm. Good tip. I continue to learn. Cheers for that. Very clear and accessible tutorial. Thanks

Super helpful! Thanks very much

Thanks! I love your explanation of these techniques: I'm doing my first model since I was a teenager and the first one I've ever done any weathering on. Looking forward to trying these out.

Do you put the decals on prior to weathering, or after?

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Hi, I am new to modelling, what colours would you start with for WW2 model aircraft . Thanks.