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Hello!

First post here, was until now only a Lurker and couldnt find anything about my Problem.
I am currently painting some Stone buildings and for the two final layers i am drybrushing with Dawnstone and then Terminatus Stone, both GW.
Dawnstone, usual drybrushing process, colour sticks where it should, nothing unusual.
After drybrushing with Terminatus Stone, i noticed that Color "grains" or "particles" get into the recesses. Obviously looks A) Really bad and B) i couldnt manage to clean it proberly.
I hade the most success with a small Brush and wipe it away.
Does anyone know what causes this? Did i manage to drybrush wrong the second time, or is my colour damaged?
I really dont want to clean every building after drybrushing now and this is even the first time something like that happened.

Greetings Flo

Brush is probably not stiff or short enough enough, letting the hairs get into cracks its not supposed to. You may also simply be getting too much paint in the brush.

Are you talking about those dry, dust-like speckles, that are not actually attached to the model? That's normal with drybrushing, just get a big soft makeup brush and dust them off.

Not a citadel hater by any means but the Dry range is kinda garbage with a couple of exceptions. You're better off buying the same color from the Edge range which drybrushes just fine and you can also use them for, you guessed it, edge highlighting.

 mcmattila wrote:
Are you talking about those dry, dust-like speckles, that are not actually attached to the model? That's normal with drybrushing, just get a big soft makeup brush and dust them off.

This sounds like it. But i never had it before on any other models. First time noticing while doing my buildings. I tried it with a brush, but they seem pretty stubborn.


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 Weazel wrote:
Not a citadel hater by any means but the Dry range is kinda garbage with a couple of exceptions. You're better off buying the same color from the Edge range which drybrushes just fine and you can also use them for, you guessed it, edge highlighting.

I am using Terminatus Stone. Didnt find a Edge Color for that on the Homepage?

Have you got a picture of the area?

I hope you can see what i mean.

The specks look to be the undercoat/ primer particles.

When dry brushing the specks get weak and flick about and as they have paint on they stick to whatever they land on,

Or its the dry paint flicking off the brush

I hope that makes sense.

 Rybrook wrote:
The specks look to be the undercoat/ primer particles.

When dry brushing the specks get weak and flick about and as they have paint on they stick to whatever they land on,

Or its the dry paint flicking off the brush

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks, it does! Maybe you you got some more answers for me:
How do i avoid it from happening? Whats the best way to get the dry stuff out of my brush and whats the best way to clean my model? I tried canned air and brushing it off, but the stuff is pretty stubborn.

Re wet and dry off the brush regularly. The dusty effect comes from dry paint turning into actual paint dust. You don’t want to be using actually dry paint, regardless of the name of the technique.