SKY BLUE

The color

Sky Blue is a light blue shade from the Oilbrushers line, which comes from AMMO of Mig Jimenez and is intended for weathering surfaces. In this role blue does not cover a surface but shifts its tone: it can cool the surface down, draw a shadow toward the cold end and break up a uniform coat that looks flat on a model.

Field of use

Light blue is used most often on the upper surfaces of aircraft and ships, where it imitates the reflection of the sky and brightens the horizontal surfaces. It also serves well on dark gray and black surfaces that are to gain depth without lightening toward gray, on glazing and vision ports to suggest a reflection, and on small blue details such as signal equipment or crew kit.

How to work with it

Stir the contents before work. Apply only a small amount to the model, best in spots, and blend it out at once with a clean soft brush in the direction in which water runs and air flows over the surface; do not turn it into a solid covering layer. Control the intensity by how much material you leave on the surface, not by how much you apply at once. Work while the material is fresh, because once dry it can no longer be blended. The thinner for blending and for cleaning brushes, the thinning ratio and the drying time are given by the manufacturer on the package. Even the surface out beforehand with a varnish so that the shade behaves the same way across the whole area.

• the light blue shade Sky Blue from the Oilbrushers line
• manufacturer AMMO of Mig Jimenez, the manufacturer's part number A.MIG-3528
• intended for toning and weathering surfaces, not as a covering coat
• applied in spots and blended out to nothing
• thinner, thinning ratio and drying time as given by the manufacturer

Terms of supply

The shade alone is supplied. Thinner, varnish and other weathering products are not included, unless stated otherwise.