What is some of the most basic weathering that i can do with an airbrush or paintbrush? please give any tips as well as pics.
The basic weathering you can do with an airbrush is the “dusting”.
Go ahead and paint your base coat. You then do an overspray of “earth” onto the lower areas of the vehicle and move your airbrush away from the model as you go to the upper areas of the vehicle. I will go so far as to paint the lower surfaces of my tanks in earth and then do the dusting technique on the upper surfaces.
You can drybrush with paint and a paintbrush.
This calls for you to take a paper towel and get most of the paint off of the brush. You want very little paint coming off the brush and onto the paper towel. You will then brush this over areas of the model. This will take some time but will yield excellent results. Drybrushing can be used for highlighting, for wear areas and rusty areas.
For wear areas, you will need to use a toned down steel for heavy wear areas (like tracks) or pencil graphite works very well for light wear areas.
For rusty areas, you can of course use a rust color toned down with some brown.
Highlighting is where you will “pop” the detail out with paint. For Highlighting I use a multi-stage drybrushing tech.
For the Upper Surface of a tank:
Stage 1: Mix a 75% base color to 25% white. This gets put on pretty heavy over the entire upper surface of the tank.
Stage 2: Mix a 50% base color to 50% white. This gets put on on all the raised details.
Stage 3: Mix a 25% base color to 75% white. This gets on the highest areas only. This is a very light coat.
For the Lower Surface of a tank (painted in “earth”)
Stage 1: drybrush with stock base color.
Stage 2: Mix a 75% base color to 25% white. This will get put on all the raised details.
Drybrushing is real easy to overdo, so when you get to the point where it looks like just one or two more strokes of the brush will get it perfect…STOP THERE! Don’t put anymore on. Trust me.
To see what this can look like go here:
http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12985
This is my JS1 which is currently on the Forum. This model has both the dusting effect and drybrushing effect.
The techniques take some time to do and some practice to master, but the results are well worth it.
I hope this helps.
Welcome to the armor forum mamacat 811. Good luck on your project. Thanks for the tip latch.
mark956
I have drybrushed my latest model using artists oils , which are very forgiving to bad placement of strokes I have found ( a key thing for me !) . If you make a mistake with them just brush some more and it goes away ![8D] use the same technique latch suggested with them also another trick brought to the forum by lizardqing was the scouring pad trick (the ones that come on the back of a sponge ) where you dip it in a metal color (“steel”) for example , wipe most of it off and blot it to various wear areas on the machine , to simulate chips . Once again subtlty is key here as with drybrushing as it is very easy to overdo! Good luck
i do some weathering using paint brush and pastel chalk as with exhaust balcken area sand of some pastel chalk dust and apply to the brush by pressing the brush to the powder chalk and brush aside on the palce u want to blacken like exhaust, gun barrel. Can use other color of the chalk like deep brown for dust.
the brush need to be those flat type a bgit harder type
good luck
sen
thanks this is great and i cant wait to try it