weathering

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how do you weather aircraft from ww2 pacific aircraft carriers. I don’t know what to do to the tires since its was on a carrier.

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You might want to try and dab some bits of dirty white on them, due to the salt spray. Other than that, nothing really special comes to mind

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Here is something I put together. Hope something in here helps

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Bud

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Hey, Im no master on weathering, and don’t no much about the Pacific Theater, but heres my thoughts. Whenever I visit Cape Cod, Massachusetts (East Coast United States, on the Atlantic OCean, for anyone who doesnt know.) Most of the houses have no paint on them, an those that do are very chipped and faded. Ive heard this is due to all the salt in the air. I dont know what the difference between military aircraft paint and house paint, But I would guess that the same rules would apply with the salty air, so you could simulate chipped paint. The two methods Ive seen are

  1. Paint silver/metal color where oyou want the chip (do this before any other painting). Lightly dampen these areas and sprinkle on some rock salt, or other type of salt where you want chips. Paint the model, and when done, remove the salt pieces, which leaves randomly chaped metal colored “paint chips”. If the plane is made of a metal that rusts, maybe a dab of rust color around them would look great. You should test this method before trying on your new model.

  2. After fully painting the model, take a scouring pad/steel wool/or the back of a sponge, and lightly cover it in silver/metal paint. Wipe most of this off, and play around, dabbing it on a piece of paper or something, until you get good results, then try this on the model, only when you are comfortable with the results. Use the same idea for rust as above, if it is a rust-able metal.

Hope this helped, post pictures of your results since Im working on an LCM 3 right now and am going to try some chipped/scratched paint, Ian