So this dummy is starting with weathering! I have two practice subjects, an already two times painted postal wagon and one flat car, which at the moment is still orange (aren’t they all orange?!).
The postal van is not in use anymore, I got it when I just started with the hobby when ‘you get what you can afford’ (well, that’s how it started for me...)
The flat car is used frequently as it has the cleaning blocks underneath, but being orange it is quickly removed from the tracks after it has done it’s duty. So this one will hopefully see more use with a more fitting color.
The last couple of weeks I have seen many Youtube vidS (I hate Youtube...) about weathering. There are many techniques and some of them I think are quite interesting to try myself. As I am a complete dummy in this area, I think it might be fun to post my endeavors here for people to help me on my way and to prevent others from making the mistakes I did.
The first test today was ‘washing’. Using a dab of paint and thin it to the max and just paint your model with this watery stuff. I first tried a dark brown acryl paint (Action) with lotsa water. It didn’t apply as smoothly as I would like and using brown suggest rust and I’ve never seen rusted planks...
The enamel was a dab of Humbrol black with some ‘thinner’. This worked a bit better and the color is not ‘rust’ but just dirty. I’ll post more pics tomorrow when it has dried.
A nifty trick I saw recently is using hairspray and immediately apply chalk dust. The effect was amazing imitating dirt and rust.
Also I got pigments from Vallejo (?) with which I’m going to experiment (rust brown).
Of course I had to alter the flat car a little... The strange rectangular holes are filled, the hose on the buffer beam is removed and the hole filled and the buffer beam itself is made less high (as per RTM)
Action stuff. Chalc, brushes I can abuse, acrylic paint in several colors and clear coats, one with ‘frosted’ effect to tame down high gloss colors.
First attempts. Left lower corner is acrylic brown, above and right of brown is Humbrol enamel black. Where the right part is a bit ‘thicker‘ applied than the area above the brown.
I used a towel to get the excess of the brown acryl off, the black is untouched.
The postal van is not in use anymore, I got it when I just started with the hobby when ‘you get what you can afford’ (well, that’s how it started for me...)
The flat car is used frequently as it has the cleaning blocks underneath, but being orange it is quickly removed from the tracks after it has done it’s duty. So this one will hopefully see more use with a more fitting color.
The last couple of weeks I have seen many Youtube vidS (I hate Youtube...) about weathering. There are many techniques and some of them I think are quite interesting to try myself. As I am a complete dummy in this area, I think it might be fun to post my endeavors here for people to help me on my way and to prevent others from making the mistakes I did.
The first test today was ‘washing’. Using a dab of paint and thin it to the max and just paint your model with this watery stuff. I first tried a dark brown acryl paint (Action) with lotsa water. It didn’t apply as smoothly as I would like and using brown suggest rust and I’ve never seen rusted planks...
The enamel was a dab of Humbrol black with some ‘thinner’. This worked a bit better and the color is not ‘rust’ but just dirty. I’ll post more pics tomorrow when it has dried.
A nifty trick I saw recently is using hairspray and immediately apply chalk dust. The effect was amazing imitating dirt and rust.
Also I got pigments from Vallejo (?) with which I’m going to experiment (rust brown).
Of course I had to alter the flat car a little... The strange rectangular holes are filled, the hose on the buffer beam is removed and the hole filled and the buffer beam itself is made less high (as per RTM)
Action stuff. Chalc, brushes I can abuse, acrylic paint in several colors and clear coats, one with ‘frosted’ effect to tame down high gloss colors.
First attempts. Left lower corner is acrylic brown, above and right of brown is Humbrol enamel black. Where the right part is a bit ‘thicker‘ applied than the area above the brown.
I used a towel to get the excess of the brown acryl off, the black is untouched.
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