Impressive weathering! And thanks for the explanation of your process, it’s really clear.
Yeah, I like the Doog’s results, too, and I agree with him about weathering and how too often it’s overdone-artistic versus realistic. In fact, I think we had a debate about that here, or maybe at HyperScale, back in the summer.
Uber guru Paul Budzik has one of his amazing videos on what the eye sees and realism. (If you don’t know Paul Budzik’s videos or Modeling Outside the Box website, do yourself a favor and watch one. Budzik is a genius - yesterday’s genius but a genius and his videos are made with a skill rarely encountered on YouTube.) Budzik’s approach to weathering is not mine - but his ideas on perception are spot on in my view. And if you subtracted the dirt real machines, especially war machines, inevitably accumulate, Budzik’s models would be as close to realistic as a plastic model can be. Also, Chris Flodberg, one of Canada’s better known painters, has a long post about color theory in modeling on the formidable Model Warship Website. It makes sense that there’s some thought behind this. I’d peg modeling as probably the world’s oldest hobby. I can just see some old ancient Greek fisherman sitting at the Piraeus working on a model of the trireme he served on in his youth. There are models in Tut’s tomb. And our hobby is the perfect companion to music - two for one. Eric
Many thanks for all that explaination Eric. Seems that i have not thinned my paint enough on the top coat. I will not give up until I have the look I’m after such as in the tuts.