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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ledded" data-source="post: 1491323" data-attributes="member: 12744">I have found that this method (and actually using a certain floor wax product, I cant remember the name) works especially good for washes (for me at least).  For washes it's great because the soap breaks the surface tension allowing it to run into the tiniest crevices and detail and then 'stick' there, oppossed to 'beading up' as water tries to do. One thing I've tried also with washes is using alchohol as a thinning agent under certain circumstances.  A very experience model train guy I know uses that and india ink to weather rocks and stuff on their sets, and it works fabulous; the alchohol causes the wash to dry quickly when put on thin, so for getting that smeared/run of 'dirt' on a building or rock (such as where water runs off of a tin roof or rock outcropping, leaving a stain) it's perfect.</blockquote>