My latest 1/6th scale figure. Still needs weathering and a nameplate but almost there.
I want to really go to town on weathering that jerry can. Before I have at go and mess it up does anyone have a good way to weather steel? I thought I might try the paint it dark metal colour and then use a liquid mask before I paint a colour coat. What is the best way to show some rust on a can like this? Any suggestions?
Thanks for looking.
Dan
Finished up this figure
Close up of the jerry can, painted in steel colour auto rattle can. Then daubed on some rubber cement then a coat of Tamiya desert yellow. The rudder cement was the rubbed off to give the worn finish. final weathering done with pastle chalks.
The finished article.
hey, looks cool - did you paint the teeth on this guy? For a paint chipped look on the jerry can you should take a look at the marder lll posted by erush on the armour forum.
If you are using acrylics like I do. Before anything else, you can fpaint the portions where you want the chipped paint look with a thin layer of enamel gun metal or metallic grey. Let dry and cover with an acrylic top coat. To expose the metal portion or chip off the paint, you can rub it with a tiny, pointed sharp tool like a knife. You can also dip a cotton swab in Isoprophyl Alcohol and rub it in some areas to expose the gun metal or metallic grey paint. The first method will result to sharp chipping off patter while the second will result to a somewhat worn or violently scratch patter.
I get one pic to work. Looks great though. You figure guys always amaze me with your paintnig abilities. I used salt on my Marder to get chipped paint if thats the one that jgeratic was refering to. Thanks for posting it .
The salt method of paint chipping was lizardqing’s. Erush did one a while back that did well at the Atlanta Model Expo and his was a little darker in color and the paint chipping was painted on. Both are excellent models and good examples of the differnt methods of portraying vehicle wear.
