Modelers, my wife is tring to paint some resin-cast crosses to look like wrought iron that is extreamly weathered. It may have been a mistake, but I employed my resources to her to try and find a way to reproduce this look using my model paints. Can anyone give me some direction on how to produce this? I was hoping I could start with some MM metalizers and go from there.
Thanks in advance.
ok assuming the wrought iron was originally black (which it is around here), there are several levels of weathering.
new = flat black paint with a hint of light grey or white added
been outside for a bit = “new paint above” with a very faint light grey wash for your average wrought iron finish
add a light dry brushing of white and then rust to create a neglected look.
when drybrushing I would concentrate the white on detail areas as these would fade faster (dunno why, there is a wrought iron place near my house and the stuff they put out front always has whiter detail) also a light white wash that was allowed to settle in the detail would do good… faint drybrushing of white over the rest… pick out some rust with a tiny brush…
that should do it!
if it is not black I would start with a dark aluminum with a diluted dark wash on the detail and go from there like above…
Dana,
I’m not sure that I would go with metallics as most wrought iron I’ve seen is flat black. It seems to go from a very deep flat black to a very , very dark gray with rust spots here and there. (at least that’s what the wrought iron on both my neighbors and my front porches look like. Before we repainted them). I would airbrush a base coat of the darkest black I could find and then drybrush several overall layers of lighter blacks/dark grays over it, finishing with areas of rust.