Weathering and Dark Washing...

[TheZeroEffect]

I love those vid's.
For myself i find weather to be an art in it's self too. I like to do it in lots of layers with a combination of techniques.
I have used coffee ground and hot water to great success. Also a sucker with my airbrush. I have an old Tamiya portable airbrush I like to use for weathering.
I have also used dish liquid mixed with water, works the same way as Windex but not as fast at drying..
Also I like to use scrunched up paper, which i use to give a random stippling effect in selected areas. Done after a mild wash and helps to create a more random texture than wiping off, which I also do.

 

[Darth Voorhees]

Lou, do you use a similar technique for weathering the soft parts as well? or is a different method used?

For soft parts i just use the krylon black primer primarily. Sometimes ill use a touch of the grey primer or "ruddy brown" as well to get color variation. On the ESB suit, i never really saw much brown dirt on it so i just used the black primer and a touch of the grey here and there on mine.

For Fett hard parts i do what i mentioned above, because his gear looks more "sooty" to me than gunked up type of dirty.

But for other things i tend to use acrylics with varying amounts of water, all the way down to dry brushing to get the look im after. For example, on clone trooper helmets i use raw umber, fairly watered down, and just get a good coating over the whole helmet and just lightly dab the higher spots with a paper towel. I will repeat this process until im happy with the look. Then, with a lightly dampened brush dab the same color into the crevasses and corners and then dab/wipe with a paper towel and repeat. I will sometimes use a little burnt sienna with it in the corners to get a rusty look going. This is how i did this Shocktrooper helmet:

 

[Tfett40]

Awesome look. Thanks for sharing these methods..