Hey guys. So I’m wanting to paint a Headhunter to match my camo G-1a. It would be my second repaint, so I’ve tried looking at some more videos and noticed something.

Everything I saw showed the painter adding wash before adding stripes and markings. On my G-1a, I painted the stripes first, and it seemed to work fine. Are there any benefits to painting details after washing the model, or is it just a personal taste thing?

Base coat --> Wash --> Primary Coat --> Detailing can really allow the model to "pop" in terms of contrast between panel groove wash and body paint.

Base coat --> Primary Coat --> Wash --> Detailing can have the same effect if the wash is thin enough, but may dim the primary coat colors and the model wont have the same "pop" as Washing first.

Below: my TIE Aggressor is the first time I did Base Coat --> Wash --> Primary Coat --> Detailing and I can really see the difference between Washing before and Washing after applying the primary coat. My Kad Solus Protectorate below was washed (a little too heavily - where "if the wash is thin enough" comes in) and uses the exact same red paints as the TIE Aggressor.

3 hours ago, ZealuxMyr said:

Base coat --> Wash --> Primary Coat --> Detailing can really allow the model to "pop" in terms of contrast between panel groove wash and body paint.

Base coat --> Primary Coat --> Wash --> Detailing can have the same effect if the wash is thin enough, but may dim the primary coat colors and the model wont have the same "pop" as Washing first.

Below: my TIE Aggressor is the first time I did Base Coat --> Wash --> Primary Coat --> Detailing and I can really see the difference between Washing before and Washing after applying the primary coat. My Kad Solus Protectorate below was washed (a little too heavily - where "if the wash is thin enough" comes in) and uses the exact same red paints as the TIE Aggressor.

Ok. Thanks. I’ll try it with the Z-95.

Edit: @ZealuxMyr? When you say “base coat,” do you mean something like a primer coat, or the base color of the repaint?

18 hours ago, sf1raptor said:

Ok. Thanks. I’ll try it with the Z-95.

Edit: @ZealuxMyr? When you say “base coat,” do you mean something like a primer coat, or the base color of the repaint?

The second one, I assume. Primer first, then base coat.

19 hours ago, sf1raptor said:

Hey guys. So I’m wanting to paint a Headhunter to match my camo G-1a. It would be my second repaint, so I’ve tried looking at some more videos and noticed something.

Everything I saw showed the painter adding wash before adding stripes and markings. On my G-1a, I painted the stripes first, and it seemed to work fine. Are there any benefits to painting details after washing the model, or is it just a personal taste thing?

the wash color will affect stripe color, often muting it.

if you want subtle wash after stripes.

high contrast, reverse.

washes are also hard to paint over, so ts lower risk to do stripes first

On ‎1‎/‎12‎/‎2018 at 5:46 PM, sf1raptor said:

Ok. Thanks. I’ll try it with the Z-95.

Edit: @ZealuxMyr? When you say “base coat,” do you mean something like a primer coat, or the base color of the repaint?

Yes, base coat is base color of the repaint. So primer first if you want to (the TIE Aggressor is not primed, I just started painting red over the model as it comes...)

5 hours ago, ZealuxMyr said:

Yes, base coat is base color of the repaint. So primer first if you want to (the TIE Aggressor is not primed, I just started painting red over the model as it comes...)

Ok. So in my case, Camo -> Wash -> Markings. Got it.

Depends on the colour of your markings and the colour of your wash, and why you're doing the wash.

If you're doing it for shading, you might want to paint the markings afterwards. If you're doing it for weathering/grime, you'll want to wash last.