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Well it’s definitely not the latter
Yeah. I tried the Gilder thing on Hinchliffe horses too, circa 1980 (I was a very young child ) I don’t think they ever dried properly. The oil paint was still sticky in the crevices about 3 months later But I think I’ve mastered it now
Nope, not at all. I have recently got into oil washes as a result of using them on my WW2 AFVs. They are WAAAAy better than ink washes like GW and Army Painter. You can mix whatever shade you want. And the trick is, you need a pin prick of oil paint in a generous droplet or three of white spirit. If you use it very very thinned down like this, it dries almost as quickly as an acrylic wash, and dries flat matt too. But the finish is (for my money) much better. It has the added advantage, that if you wish, within the first hour or two you can reanimate it with another drop of white spirit, and move it around. After that it dries properly and is fixed. But it’s not like using neat (or slightly thinned) oil paint where it takes days for the paint to go off. It’s basically a white spirit wash with a tiny bit of tincture in it. It evaporates and dries to the touch within a couple of minutes. It’s flow properties are far superior to ink washes though...Maybe I’ll do a tutorial
my goodness, something to be reminded how brilliant both the figures and painting are in this thread.
Did you ever do a tutorial?