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What I usually do is get an old brush, or a brush meant for it, dip it in a bit of paint, wipe most of it off onto a paper towel and wipe the brush onto your finger just to be sure. Then when most of it is off, apply the brush lightly if you want a subtle effect.
In the name of the emperor, burn the heretic, kill the mutant, purge the unclean. "Man's flight through life is sustained by the power of his knowledge."
WH40K: Space Marines
FoW: British Armoured Tank Company
Just a heads up, drybrushing takes quite a bit of paint, which sucks for me cause half of mt scheme is dry brush based.
In the name of the emperor, burn the heretic, kill the mutant, purge the unclean. "Man's flight through life is sustained by the power of his knowledge."
WH40K: Space Marines
FoW: British Armoured Tank Company
Drybrushing is fairly easy to do, however, it does take a lot of practice into getting used to the type of paints and the colors that you use. Basically, with the least amount of paint on your brush, you brush onto a paper towel/newspaper until you don't see any pigment going onto your medium. Then you use light dusting strokes on your model. Your brush strokes should be similar to when you are using a brush to remove dust from your miniatures. Just remember you want to gradually control your drybrushing from making the color weaker to more intense. In other words, build up your colors slowly. With drybrushing you can do all kind of neat effects. Sometimes you can even use totally different colors to create a different look. For brushes, I use the older brushes that are starting to get messed up. When my brushes are new, I use them for basecoating, etc, then as the bristles start to spread and get messed up, they become my brushes I use for drybrushing.
I just tend to go for a softer brush specifically for it. Size helps you keep control of the effect and keeps it away from stuff you don't want to hit. It works as sort of a short cut for some effects.
anyone know how to do it? Tanks i say tanks rather then thanks.
