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When you guys use washes to do your tanks, are you only supposed to dab the wash in the recesses or do you coat the entire tank? Like... on a Guard Chimera for example, do you brush the wash onto the large, flat panels or only in the recesses between the panels and stuff?

Hi,

i think it depents on the main colour that you use.
For example when you use a dark blue then wash the recesses only and when you use a yellow then wash the hole model.

Do the recesses or use an airbrush to apply it. I've washed whole vehicles before, and it usually ends up with lots of nasty pooling that looks awful. I started sticking to just the recesses and it looks much better.

I play iron warriors and i wash the whole tank. The outcome is questionable though.

A technique a lot of armour painters use is to put on a thickish wash, then sponge it off the panels by a dabbing or pressing action, not wiping.

This tends to get the edges and cracks darker than the centre of the panel.

I like that suggestion, Kilkrazy...

But I dunno if it would be sensible on a Wave Serpent (my next tank on my painting list)?

Id carefully do the cracks and bolts of the tank...like others have mentioned, if the wash pools you will not like the result. There are other things you can do if your looking to weather the vehicle