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Look into filters, glazes, washes and tints and see which or what combination of them you would like to achieve.
There are loads of good tutorials and products available and with a little more information from you we can probably help more.
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Do you mean it looks clean and you want to look into weathering techniques? Again lots of products/techniques.
Have you got a picture of how it looks and the sort of thing you want it to look like?
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The coating on it is just to bright. It’s a light tan when I wanted a darker tan. It’s painted very well though, so well I do not want to strip and start over.
Elbows wrote: Dip/wash/etc. It all tones stuff down quite a bit.
Dips and washes also massively change how it looks.
Filters are what you want. Filters are like washes, but you use even less pigment and apply them more thinly. If you have a dark wash you can make a filter from it by adding some flow improver and thinning it out more, probably about half as thin, the flow improver ensures the surface tension is low so you can apply it thinly without it beading up.
Of course even filters are going to bring colours closer together. Google "scale model filter" and you can read a bit about it, scale modellers often use sand or light grey filters to make vehicles look less like they just rolled off the factory floor.
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That video is aimed at weathering a model, if you want to darken a model you have to choose a filter colour that will achieve that (maybe a darker version of the colour you already have or maybe a black, dark brown or dark grey filter).
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AMMO MIG is good stuff. I use it on my Flames of War Minis.
YOu can also make filters and use in an airbrush, though you may want to test it first. Mix pledge floor clearner, diluted with water and paint/wash. This is much more advanced, and more for very specific colors.
Probably better off just going with the MIG.
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Dynas wrote: AMMO MIG is good stuff. I use it on my Flames of War Minis.
YOu can also make filters and use in an airbrush, though you may want to test it first. Mix pledge floor clearner, diluted with water and paint/wash. This is much more advanced, and more for very specific colors.
Probably better off just going with the MIG.
It's not hard at all to mix a filter.
MIG filters are enamels, not acrylics, if you want to mix something similar yourself buy some enamel paints (testors, humbrol, tamiya) and an appropriate enamel thinner (I buy whatever thinner is made by the same company that makes the paint I'm using to avoid compatibility issues).
Put a tiny amount of enamel paint in a few drops of enamel, bang, there's your filter.
If you want to mix a filter from water based acrylics it's a little bit more difficult simply because water based acrylics have much higher surface energy and don't spread as easily when you thin them out to absurd levels. Still it's not difficult, mix a tiny amount of paint with a few drops of water and flow improver, you might want to add some medium if you'd like, depends how you want it to behave.
Filters aren't difficult to make, the main motivation for buying them is that it can be hard to recreate a filter, if you decide down the track you need to use the same filter again creating a mix that behaves in exactly the same way is not that simple. If you bought an off-the-shelf solution then you just crack open that same bottle or buy another one.
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