
However, I'm looking for suggestions for what to get. Having made a reasonable profit in my money-making model ventures, I've decided to invest in an AB that will make things quicker and easier and therefore feed back into more profit. Progress has also been slowed as I've been distracted in looking at airbrushes. Next will be some brown and then red/purple/dark blue (however I progress) before highlighting and final details. So now, resigned to the fact that I'll be touching up the highlights at the end, I've moved on to pin-washing black into all the recesses.

and that tinted all the ridges as I had hoped that the blue would have done. Then I gave it an all-over brown wash to get into all the recesses. Therefore, I resorted to dry-brushing the blue (heavy, all-over mid-blue. That didn't work, all I got was blue in the recesses and the highlights stayed grey/white. You will remember that I said I was going to give it an all-over wash (more of a glaze) of blue to tint it and would then shade it with brown and black. This has taken quite a while and not progressed as I expected So, while I am talking about it, this is what the UFO is looking like at the moment:

As for the UFO maybe using a slight purple wash might help with the highlight to blue, the transgression from brown to blue might be quite harsh as the purple might work as an intermediary to help subtle the change.
