[WWI] Painting wood - the Swedish way

[Crawford Neil]

Thanks Carlos for noticing I was away, there were some other people
who didn't! I had an attack of something we call winter vomitting
sickness,
it's a rather nasty virus, very contagious, so I took responsibilty for
my workmates health very seriously, and stayed at home building a Spad.

The milk is to make the varnish/pigment mix curdle, like when you put 
milk thats a bit old in a cup of tea, it goes all funny. Same thing
happens
to the varnish, you get lots of tiny blobs, these simulate the grain in
the
wood. Thats my reason, and I'm sticking to it, I can imagine Alberto has
an
even weirder reason, like that Leonardo da Vinci did it, and whats right

for Leonardo is right for me too, sort of thing. 
/Neil C.

-----Original Message-----
From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On
Behalf Of Carlos Carreira
Sent: den 2 mars 2007 18:59
To: World War I Modeling Mailing List
Subject: Re: [WWI] Painting wood - the Swedish way

Umm... Dr VanHelsing explanation seems reasonable...
Where's Neil when he is needed?

carlos

On 3/2/07, Diego Fernetti <dfernet0 at rosario.gov.ar> wrote:
>
> Carlos!
> > Diego, why milk?
>
> As proved by recent lab analysis, the lactose amount in some milk
brands
> can
> affect the pigmentation to a molecular level (especially those near
the
> blue/violet spectrum), since actually the enzimatic group involved in
the
> biologic fluids can in some aspects vary the ph of surrounding media,
as
> described in the 1987 paper by Dr. Lucius VanHelsing... Gee, Carlos,
> really
> I don't know why.
> Perhaps because whole milk has fat in it and that makes the dull
finish to
> shine a little more?
>
> > I went to Alberto's gallery but the photos probably dont do
> > justice to the model and I couldn't notice any difference in sheen.
> > What kind of coat can be added after?
>
> Yes, it's unnoticeable in those pictures. Alberto sent an email with
that
> description of his method, but I can't recall if it was on the list or
> offlist. As far as I know, he didn't overcoated that last "fatty"
coat.
> D.
>
>