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Alright Dakka, I'm in some need of help here. I've been using my airbrush to basecoat my models in a nice green, overtop of a black primer, and I proceed to add a heavily watered black into the creases to add a outline, and then, paint the green back on to coverup the mess and mistake, but this is a very slow process, and I need some advice to speed things up.

So what can I do add outlines to my marines, without the hassle of cleaning up mistakes? Aside from "being more careful" when outlining. To be honest, the slow process is starting to to kill my love of painting :/

Oil wash, clean up with cotton bud? Preshading with airbrush? Post shading with airbrush? (look at some of buypainted's airbrush videos of almost any space marine model, he usually paints the base colour, a shade, a highlight then an oil wash).

A pin wash (very flow-y wash applied to recesses after a gloss coat - easy to find tips with a quick search) shouldn't require much cleanup, if any (just wipe/soak up the excess while wet), and can be done with acrylics, oils, or enamels. An oil wash would still require cleanup if applied generally, instead of as a pin wash, but it would be a very fast process - just swipe over the model with a cotton bud dampened with your thinner.

Both methods require a layer of varnish to be sprayed over the basecoat (oil washes require another to seal them before you resume with acrylic painting), but neither requires repainting to cover mistakes, which is the real painstaking part. If you paint in batches, the preparatory sealing is a small price to pay for the decreased labor and barely affects turnaround time, as you can work on one batch as the next dries.