I'm just waiting for my blanco to arrive, (should be today 
), and I need some guidence in how to apply it 
There are several methods... Here's what I do. I reckon it give good coverage without too much wastage. This works with the round crumbly blocks. I'm not sure what you do with the square waxy ones.
#1 split the webbing into separate parts, remove brasses where possible (eg on belts).
#2 Take a small piece of blanco and break it up in a dry container with a hammer until its a powder. I use the top of an aerosol paint can as the container.
#3 Take a bin liner, cut open the sides until you have a large flat sheet and lay it on your work area.
#4 Soak each part in some warm water for about a minute. Note that the binocular case has cardboard in it, so don't soak it for long or you'll have a lot of trouble with it!
#5 Take each part out of the water, shake the water off slightly, the webbing must still be damp. Lay it on the flat sheet of bin liner.
#6 Scatter the blanco powder on the area to be covered.
#7 Brush the blanco in to the webbing with a brush. A clean shoe polishing brush is great for this. When doing this try to keep the brasses clean. They can be wiped with a cloth if necessary. Remeber there's no need to do the inside of pouches or other areas that can't be seen! What you want is a nice even dull green colour over the whole of the webbing with no streaks or splots.
#8 Hang the webbing piece up to dry on something. A chair back is good, remember the webbing will drip water so don't do it over your best carpet! It'll probably take a couple of days to dry out properly. Do not assist the drying with heat as that will cause the webbing and blanco to go hard.
If done right this will result in nearly all the blanco you used being on the webbing and not much wastage at all.
If you don't use too much then there should be no need to brush any blanco off after its dried either!
With this method a single block of blanco should be enough to cover two full marching order sets of webbing. That includes Large pack and small pack!
Ha! Ha! You should have joined ze Wehrmacht, Tommies! 
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
No cos your webbing is shit and keeps falling to bits on acount of being a 19th century design 
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
And made out of oldfashioned leather, wich gos hard when it gets wet, and gives you blisters and sores in the offending areas.
I was told of two ways of blankoing when I started re-enacting British,
1st Method, Same as the method yith mentioned exept
Step 6, Mix the powder into a fine paste using a little water and aply the past eavenly using a tooth Brush.
Step 9 After I has dryed brush off any exes blanko with a corse brush.
I normally do this every 2 Years to all my webbing that has seen exesive use and is fading a bit.
The other way I know of is to get a sponge, dampen the sponge and rub the blanko onto the sponge and then apply to the webbing. This is normally good for a quick go over and touch ups.
Thanks Guys, my parcel has arrived so it looks like I'll be blancoing this weekend 
And made out of oldfashioned leather, wich gos hard when it gets wet, and gives you blisters and sores in the offending areas.
For the record, my offending areas have no blisters!
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
then whats that revolting thing on your tuetonic head, it looks hideouse. Oh its your face, how awfull you must feel.
And made out of oldfashioned leather, wich gos hard when it gets wet, and gives you blisters and sores in the offending areas.
For the record, my offending areas have no blisters!
It's a Tommy thing Steiner , we wouldn't understand , like drinking tea and making ridiculous parachute assaults way behind enemy lines...and counting stiches !!
hey, I dont count stitches.
Do I?
Right, I finally got round to blancoing my kit
Just got to wait a couple of days to see how it turns out
(Sorry for the quality of the picture but my camera is dying, and due to other calls on my disposable income I'm not able to replace it at the moment)
Looking good...
I assembled my nice dry webbing last night... a full set of officers webbing nice and evenly blancoed with polished brasses (well most of them)... great stuff!
I made myself a 'gaming' set up.
I have a full officers set and an ORs set but the officers set isnt too practical for carrying airsoft kit and the ors set *is* but looks wrong on the OC of the game
So i ordered the parts for a hybrid set and blancoed them last week.
Currently consists of:
Belt and cross straps
1 xbren pouch
1x pistol , brace extender and ammo pouch on other side
water bottle in 'airborne' sleeve carrier
Officers valise.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Blanco should ideally end up the colour of Yith and I's btw guys.
Barry and Anne's look like they have very strong coverage and could probably do with a stiff brushing to take the excess off.
Thats if you guys used KG3 powder cake circular block.
If it was the waxy rectangular stuff form SOF i have no idea how that ends up.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Is there no end to this Blancoeing lark?
Will take a brush to it tomorrow night.
You're right (of course) and we had suspected we'd applied too much because your hands get green whenever you touch it now.
Are you supposed to be able to see some of the tan colour coming through?
You're right (of course) and we had suspected we'd applied too much because your hands get green whenever you touch it now.
Same things happening with mine 
Are you supposed to be able to see some of the tan colour coming through?
ditto
Not the world's expert on Blanco, but if you applied it wet enough the dye should have soaked into the webbing a fair way - if you brush the surface excess off then you won't see tan underneath.
Thanks. Will try giving it a brush. Was just a bit concerned we'd brush all the green off and be back to square one!
If you brush it unitl coulds of green dust stop coming off it should go a sort of sage green colour.
You will still see its overall green not tan though.
Howeverlooking at your pics you put exaclty the right ammount on to startwith.
I use a brush like you use to take shoe polish off with.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
After a few experiments I think I have worked out how to apply the waxy square brick type of blanco.
Strip down the webbing and rub the block dry into to the outward facing surfaces of the webbing (as if it were a big wax crayon).
Now take an old toothbrush or nail brush, dip it in a mug of water and scrub away lightly. The blanco on the fabric starts to dissolve, spreads and soaks in, giving an even green wash. You can do a '37 pattern belt, straps, pouches and water bottle cover in about 15 minutes and use very little of the blanco block in the process.. Wait for it to dry (not long as you haven't really soaked the fabric) to decide if it needs a recoat or not.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
