Bonus tip: There’s no better time to clean mold lines and drill gun barrels than right after clipping parts off the frame and before glueing the part to anything. You never get better access than right then. Cleaning mold lines off fully assembled models is madness.

Like this was the very specific reason I said “complementary color neutralization” and not just “complementarity”

My apologies. I got overly defensive. I wasn’t trying to extend that far into controversial waters. Merely trying to say there are five simple concepts that hive you tools in using colors as weapons. I stay away from “what to use with what” as much as I can now.

I’m making no statement about suitability of colors. Neutralization is just the nearly objective desaturation that happens in a mix when colors fairly opposite in hue are mixed.

That has absolutely nothing to do with complementary color neutralization. At all.

But when you touch a wet brush to a wet surface, the cohesion to the wet paint is roughly equal to the cohesion in the brush paint, so very little paint leaves the brush tip. It’s just not very productive.

Getting sciency: Water adhesion (water sticking to another surface) is stronger than water cohesion (water molecules sticking together). When we touch a dry surface, the adhesion of watery paint to the dry surface overcomes cohesion of the paint within the brush and pulls paint off the brush

Trying to add more wet paint to wet paint (excepting wet blending) doesn’t add more. It mostly just pushes around what is there. Pushing around paint while it’s drying causes tears and unwanted texture.

To get started you need: a tube of oil paint (start with ivory black and burnt umber), some mineral spirits, a junky brush, and a small container that can hold mineral spirits for mixing in. Latex makeup sponges and cotton swabs recommended.

An additional benefit is that if you ever need to remove the model to rebase, it’s easier to slice through the sheeting with a flathead scalpel blade than cleanly separating feet directly from the base.