Aaron Skinner

ArticleArticles in Press105873Open access Affiliations & Notes 1IVF Australia, Alexandria, Sydney, Australia 2NeoGenix Fertility Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia 3University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia 4IVF Australia, Greenwich, Sydney, Australia 5University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 6American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 7Melbourne IVF, Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia 8School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville,...

It’s always seemed a little funny to me that when modelers wash a model, they’re making it look used and lived-in — the opposite of clean. This irony aside, washes are one of the easiest ways to give your models life and add realism. Here are a few things to keep in mind when applying washes, and some tricks that will make them even better. Consider the kind of paint used for the model, because thinner attacks paint. Say you finished a Spitfire using Model Master enamels.

1 Introduction Bergmann's Rule describes a pattern wherein “body size varies inversely with ambient temperature, so that body size increases with latitude” (translated from the original German by Watt et al. 2010), a rule broadly supported in endotherms at both intraspecific (Ashton 2002; Henry et al. 2023; Meiri and Dayan 2003) and interspecific levels (Fröhlich et al. 2023; He et al. 2023).