Removing an oil-based wash isn’t always as easy as you would like. For example, rivet holes really stand out when you deepen them with a dark wash, but removing the wash around them is nearly impossible without removing too much. Sometimes I have to apply the wash several times before I get it right.

Here’s a trick I figured out by accident. I had finished a wash application about an hour earlier and was removing some lint with a piece of Scotch blue painter’s tape wrapped around my finger. When I pressed and removed the lint around the rivets and raised detail on the windscreen of my Bachem Natter, I also lifted the wash on all the raised detail without losing one single darkened rivet. Make sure you rotate the tape — otherwise you risk pressing paint back onto the model. Don’t press too hard either, or you will lift the base coat.

Tip submitted by:
Jason MoralesSkara, Sweden