New weathering technique

Modeling Subjects Aircraft
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I fooled around with a new weathering technique last night and was quite pleased with the results. I thought it captured the look of how modern Navy planes look.

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Man that looks great. PLEASE DON’t KEEP US GUESSING! How did you do it?

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Looks great. What is the technique?

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Aaah, OK. Gonna keep it to yourself ?

Regards, Rick

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And the answer is?

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What’s the technique?!?! Come on man!!![:p][:p]

You can’t taunt us like this!![;)]

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Sorry about that. I only had a couple of minutes to post before my 1st graders got back. Here’s a quick step-by-step of how it went:

  1. Paint base coat (in this case, Medium Gray)
  2. Lighten base coat (25%)and spray some blotches over entire surface.
  3. Lighten base coat even more (45%) and spray more blotches over entire surface.
  4. Apply burnt umber pastel powder to the entire base coat.
  5. Spray Gunship Gray on panel lines and random “spot primed” areas. References are really important at this point.
  6. Overspray the Gunship Gray with Light Ghost Gray, but use a fine nozzle instead of the medium and don’t cover the edges of the Gunship Gray.
  7. Lighten the base coat (50%) one more time, but this time mist over the entire surface enough to blend things together but not diminish the effect.
  8. With raised lines (as on the Monogram kit that’s shown), apply burnt umber to the lines and wipe off with a damp Q-Tip. With recessed lines, run a Micron .005 pen through the lines and wipe off with a Q-Tip.

It was rather time consuming, but I think it’s worth the effort. Maybe Paul and Mark will let me include how to do this as part of a future article. Dang, I wish I had tried this before I wrote the weathering a Tomcat article.

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Thats a great weathering scheme

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Looks great, but kinda labor intensive for a lazy bones like me. Thanks for sharing the technique.

Regards, Rick

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Thanks for that, hard work but worth the effort.Great looking scheme.

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WOW!!! How did I miss this? That looks awesome Darren. I wish I would have seen this before I painted my F-14B for the GB. I’ll have to try this technique on my next 'Cat. Thanks for posting this.

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Hey this is good i need to print this out , i cant absorb much here now, too bad i finished painting my cat already.

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Excellent work Darren! I’ll see if I can get the hang of it on a tester than try it on my 'Cat that i am building for the ARC GB and FSM GB. Thanks for the info and nice work on that EA-6B!