Help/advice weathering ROTJ armour
- Thread starter gabby7095
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It's pretty simple.
Just use black acrylic paint. Maybe thin it a little with water (I use distilled water just because I have it on hand for thinning airbrush paint). I went with a viscosity just about like milk.
Get a toothbrush. Preferably not your daily brush
and preferably a new one so it has some spring to the bristles (you can get these cheap at Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Family Dollar, etc etc) The one I used was soft bristle.
Then dip the tip into your paint mix and wipe away some of the excess on the side of your paint bowl or drop cloth or rag etc.
I held the toothbrush like you would hold a handlebar with the bristle side down and toward my thumb. Then just press your thumb into the bristles at the tip and pull back running your thumb through the bristles while pressing down. When the bristles spring up they make the flecks you want.
My biggest advice would be to practice it first on a piece of cardboard or posterboard or anything light enough to see the speckles it makes until you have a feel for it.
Also after you dip in the paint run your thumb thru a couple of times over scrap/dropcloth to get possible large blobs flung out until you see its doing the misting you desire.
Also look closely at the pieces of armor you are working on in gallery images as the different armor pieces have varying degree of misting in different places.
Hope this helps some!
Just use black acrylic paint. Maybe thin it a little with water (I use distilled water just because I have it on hand for thinning airbrush paint). I went with a viscosity just about like milk.
Get a toothbrush. Preferably not your daily brush
and preferably a new one so it has some spring to the bristles (you can get these cheap at Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Family Dollar, etc etc) The one I used was soft bristle.Then dip the tip into your paint mix and wipe away some of the excess on the side of your paint bowl or drop cloth or rag etc.
I held the toothbrush like you would hold a handlebar with the bristle side down and toward my thumb. Then just press your thumb into the bristles at the tip and pull back running your thumb through the bristles while pressing down. When the bristles spring up they make the flecks you want.
My biggest advice would be to practice it first on a piece of cardboard or posterboard or anything light enough to see the speckles it makes until you have a feel for it.
Also after you dip in the paint run your thumb thru a couple of times over scrap/dropcloth to get possible large blobs flung out until you see its doing the misting you desire.
Also look closely at the pieces of armor you are working on in gallery images as the different armor pieces have varying degree of misting in different places.
Hope this helps some!
That could not have been worded better!
All too often I find myself overly excited to finish something and want to rush headlong into it, but then have to calm myself down and realize that attempting something I've never done before could have disastrously time consuming negative effects on the work I've already done without practicing it first and knowing what to do.
Don't let anything discourage you! Its not a hard process at all!
jonbenm
Hunter
An airbrush worked perfect for me I put off buying one for a long time because I've never used one...but the day I got it weathering has never been so easy...I held the brush back about a foot and did a light spray over the whole thing and then a heavy spray over the dented areas I couldn't be happier with the way it came out
DeathProof
Active Hunter
Take your time
Weathering is a process and should be done with multiple layers. Blacks, dark greys, browns, white and silver scratches, matching the reference pictures as much as possible.
I used an airbrush which gave me much more control over the fade.
For the black splatters I took a toothbrush dipped in in watered down acrylic and just pushed my thumb through the bristles. Have a paper towel ready while doing any weathering to clean up if you go too far.
Weathering is a process and should be done with multiple layers. Blacks, dark greys, browns, white and silver scratches, matching the reference pictures as much as possible.
I used an airbrush which gave me much more control over the fade.
For the black splatters I took a toothbrush dipped in in watered down acrylic and just pushed my thumb through the bristles. Have a paper towel ready while doing any weathering to clean up if you go too far.
R4ZORBL4DE
Hunter
That looks pretty awesome, DeathProof !
Take your time
Weathering is a process and should be done with multiple layers. Blacks, dark greys, browns, white and silver scratches, matching the reference pictures as much as possible.
I used an airbrush which gave me much more control over the fade.
For the black splatters I took a toothbrush dipped in in watered down acrylic and just pushed my thumb through the bristles. Have a paper towel ready while doing any weathering to clean up if you go too far.
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