Am I missing something??

[Anonymous]

Hi guys, I am doing what the following link is telling me, but I don’t get how it goes from picture 5 to picture 6, how do I get the frosted metal look??

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Thanks, Anthony.

[HeavyArty]

These coats should be lightly misted on using heavily thinned colours and sprayed from about 6 inches away in a few steady passes to gauge the amount applied. For a dusty effect spray a further coat of XF-57 Buff over the lower half and up the hull sides

Sounds as if he is just spraying mist coats (very thinned paint at low pressure) over the whole model to get that effect.

I don’t know, it doesn’t look very realistic to me. Looks like a model that has been painted over and not completed. I’ll stick to the good old wash and drybrush methods for weathering.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Heavy… I am building my Tiger in a winter dio and did not want to put a white wash over it, how would you make it look “frosted”??

Anthony.

[HeavyArty]

I would give it a light gray wash, followed by medium gray and light grey ending in almost white drybrushes. You could also do a very light drybrushing of silver to give it some sparkle. Should look cold and frosty.