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1 hour ago, sb67 said:

 

Thank's I'll give it a go. Does it help to break surface tension at all. I havent yet found a way of recreating the properties of an enamel was using acrylics. 

I don't really have much experience with enamels, so I can't really say. The medium does help a lot with the surface tension, the results are similar to using a normal acrylic wash.

Thanks!

That is going to be really useful.

Is that photo in one of the S&W books?

2 hours ago, sb67 said:

I'm interested in the use of the glaze medium, I've got some of that but never used it. Have you used it for weathering before? 

I've only started using it fairly recently. I usually do around 50/50 water and medium if I want a thin wash, I find it avoids "tide marks" as the paint is drying. That is what I used for overall grime wash on the crane from the previous couple of posts. 

For the light gray on the wagon I put a drop of medium and mixed it with the gray on my wet palette to thin it a bit.

11 hours ago, 5&9Models said:

Looking forward to seeing the next wagon completed.

You've jinxed it now, I've spent the evening scrabbling around the floor failing to find one of the match truck's buffer collars 

And I've just noticed the chassis wobbles...

On 15/03/2021 at 07:09, Mikkel said:

Am still trying to work out the best strategy.

For the time being, I don't really have any alternatives to ordering online and paying up.

Once travel to the UK is a possibility again, I'll hopefully be able to go to an actual shop.

Thanks for the tips. I live in Italy, so I'll have to see if I can get some model strip sent over. For the time being I'll go with the cleaner, I should have time to get it tomorrow.

I'm afraid it is electrical solder. Is there any particular solder you recommend? I'm a complete novice when it comes to this stuff.