Hey… Anyone have good tips for weathering armor in the desert? i couldnt really find that much on how to do it. and buildings in the desert too, unless thatd be under dioramas… anyone have tips or things they do? anything would be appreciated [:o)][:o)]
some good ways would be to spray a lightened version of your base color to simulate sun faded paint. and may be a light mist of sand yellow near the bottom to simulate fine sand dust.
also remember that dessert armor was the worst treated by the elements they wern’t serviced much.
Lots of dust ,dirt and sand! Plus faded colors bleached by the sun! Pass the canteen!
Glenn
Ground up pastels work pretty well to simulate dust and dirt, especially if you smear them around a bit it kinda looks like someone attempted to clean it
hmm, thank you all. [bow][wow]
thanks a bunch
This may or may/not be relevant to you, but if you are doing ww2 German desert armour, I learnt this trick from an Aussie model mag.
Paint the vehicle in Panzer grey first. This is how all vehicles arrived in Africa.
Use some liquid latex, like Humbrol’s maskol, and virtually dry-brush it on to extremities of the vehicle that are likely to be scratched worn dented or walked on, and make note on a drawing where you did this.
After the latex has cured, spray your topcoats of desert yellow etc and leave to completely cure. (very important)
Then you get someting like a pencil eraser, sticky tape or Blu-tack (not sure about US equivalent, it is sort of a gooey stuff that you stick posters on to walls with) and rub over the latexed spots.
The paint cracks and chips away, quite effectively, and reveals the panzer grey coat underneath!
With a bit of practice, this can be really cool, and can be applied to other areas of armour as well. I went to town on a model wreck to get the hang of it. Less is more with this, just like most weathering techniques.
Quite coincidently, this is quite fun too.
that’s a kewl tip phroosh!
“liquid paper” can be used too instead of humbrol’s masksol
or rock salt before the desert yellow for the scratched effect.
WOW!!! thats awesome dj!!! i bet it took u a lloooonnnnnngggggggggg time to make that post! thats’s awesome dj! i gotta try that! i need to try that too proosh! i never EVER would have thought of this stuff guys! thanks a lot! o and proosh, the US ‘‘blu-tack’’ is called ‘‘sticky-tack’’
Thanks guys!!!