As some of you know I am undertaking the ANdrea Miniatures 1/32 U-boat. I will be painting it in the winter scheme of white over RLM66. Several years back I ran across an article on the painting of a submarine using a really cool technique that involved using dish soap. I have already put a bug in FSM's ear and have somebody there looking. Does anybody here remember what issue that specific article appeared in? IF you read it, I'm sure you will remember the article as it produced a very realistic finish on the pictured sub. Thanks and hope to hear from some or a lot of you soon. "Q"

The only thing I even remotely remember about dish soap was putting a drop in when mixing water based paints for airbrush.

Hi Matthew!

I have read that article, but I really don't remember where.
But I think that I still remeber it very well (the procedure):
- Paint the U-boat with the RLM66 and let it dry;
- Apply a acrilic white airbrushed coat over;
- Half an hour later, wet the white area with a solution of dishwasher (or any other active detergent) and with a brush (hard, like and old tooth brush, or plastic "haired" brush) scrap the white paint.
- Do this by small areas and leave "some white" for convincing weather!

Hope this help, and hope that this was what you were looking for!

Keep us posted

Skipper