Review: Vallejo Model Wash – European dust 76.523, oiled earth

By A Mystery Man Writer

Description

Acrylic weathering products, while being very attractive due to not being hazardous, tend to have a big issue: surface tension. Solvent-based products, washes spread much better, and they do not leave "tide-marks" like water-based products do; therefore I was pretty interested in how Vallejo's dust washes perform. In short: very well. (OK, you can stop…

Packaging : In 35 ml bottles. Model Wash is a range of washes created with a unique water-based formula. The product provides the model painter with new techniques for rendering the processes of ageing and exposure to the elements. Colors with a matt finish and of high capillarity, formulated to bring forth the minute details of the panels of the model and the contrasts produced by the wear and accumulated grime caused by operative and weather exposure.