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So, after not painting for a few years, I spent today re-hydrating my vallejo's, and some of my old Citadel colour pop-tops.

While digging through hte drawer I found some old washes and glazes.

And, me being too lazy to experiement- I was wondering if anyone knows what the difference between a wash and a glaze?

I figure a glaze dries with some gloss, but Im not sure....and the stuff is older than some of the kids playing these days- so it may not even work right anymore.

A glaze is exactly that. It was used to basically make a flat color appear shiny. (For giving vehicles a more metallic look I guess ) I don't think it got too popular since people could simply purchase a laquer or spray to do the same thing for cheaper.
Thats what my uncle tells me anyway

Ya, these bottles are at least 15 years old, but still usable, jsut trying to save having to sdtrip some figs if I test them lol

Glaze is formulated to put color on uniformly. To colorize as a colored clear.

Wash is designed to pool in order to increase contrast but without the glossy finish inks leave.

Glaze acts a lot like matte medium but with additives like flow aid included. It is

So, in air brush lingo, a glaze is like clear candy coat? That might be pretty useful actually...

Candy YES! That's what I use it for. Haven't tried squirting through the airbrush so if you go into testing please post what ratios you find to work best. Unless I beat you to it But I do use liquitex glaze medium. Vallejo glaze seems to dry a little chalky when the ratio is heavy on the glaze side.

Are you using the Vallejo 'Air' glaze, or the Model/Game color glaze?


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And honestly- not sure if I wanna shoot this stuff through my AB. Its old, like when my freinds aquired it- they were working at GW's warehouse in Maryland 1995. This stuff was in a box that was considerd out of date even then.

I will amusingly note however-I still have, and use almost 2 dozen colors from that same batch.

But, even then, its still probly a bit too lumpy to spray without serious straining(and Im likely too lazy for that).

I've only tried the glaze from my VGC and VMC line.. have yet to buy the Air colors although it's a pretty sexy deal with the airbrush they include. But paint on I use all liquitex additives. And if you go to their site they have good explanations as to what each additive does.

You should get the strainer funnels from MicroMark. They are all kinds of rad. NO MORE CHUNKS! ahhh!

Using the glaze from a brush-delivery intended application may have been the cause of the problem. Trapped air in opaque colrs isnt an issue- but for transparent stuff it is

I just got a steal of VAC on ebay, liker 75 bottles for 68$

Nice having prethinned paint to spray- but in hte future I'll stick with traditional paints and thin them down when I need them. The air stuff doesnt brush on very well, so it lacks versatility.

And most of my additives are liquitex too, easily available at art supply places

I agree. You can thin down heavy body paint to be able to spray so yeah, now that you brought that to light, scratch the model air idea heh.

75 for $68?!?! Empty droppers? Sweet! Actually if you got them at thewarstore.com it would be about the same. But last I checked the 12 pack of bottles were out-of-stock BOOO. So very good deal you got there

Yep, even pre-thinned its alot of paint to go through. Now I just have the added benefit of having spare paint to practice with so I can free up some dropper bottles when I need them