Desaturated Colours

Desaturated Colours.

Desaturated colours, that have lost their colour intensity (saturation) due to the addition of white or by thinning the colour with water. The blue uniform of Franconian Infanterie-Regiment von Varell pictured above has lost some of its colourfulness by tinting with white. We created the highly desaturated blue uniform of the Bavarian Infanterie-Regiment Kurprinz shown below by heavily whitening the same blue base colour, here PRIMAcryl 13.431 »Indigo« by Schmincke.

Desaturated Indigo.

Model Paints