Re: Textures & Weathering, not as hard as you think!
It seems our first "encounter" was on the blog from Hemmings Motor News, but you did not explain why you found me!
Don, many thanks for your explanation about another way to replicate the coating. This is effectively something I will try. If I wrote that I'm not too comfortable with the air brush is the fact that rat cans paint have the right consistency, no cleaning even after just one small "pfutt" which is a non-sense to do with an airbrush. As you stated, it must be cleaned after each usage, no matter if you are using it for 3 hours or 5 seconds.
I did all the leather painting with the airbrush and had no trouble with it, but I would not do the outside body with it. I noticed that if the paint is too thick, nothing is coming out, therefore to get the desire undercoating effect, some experimentation is needed. You are right, if the effect is too coarse, it's not looking "right".
Not all cars have an undercoating. Some have just the wheel wells, some have in addition to that some undercoating sprayed near the rocker panels; I think that the whole factory coated underbody is unique to the Mark II. Some cars have the wheel wells painted body color; is there a coating under the paint? I just don't know and I don't remember how were protected (or lack of that) the Opels leaving the Swiss assembly line. A shame, because I was there!
Re: Textures & Weathering, not as hard as you think!
Old partly used containers of paint can give a finish like what you describe, when applied with a brush. If you have a really old can or bottle, it may be worth a try on some scrap metal.
Re: Textures & Weathering, not as hard as you think!
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Originally Posted by
Roger Zimmermann
This is an old topic, but this afternoon I tried the flour method. It's no good: when the paint is still wet, the flour should be spayed on the surface because by pouring the flour, it absorbs the paint most immediately and too much flour is staying. I tried to spray the floor; the only result was a dirty airbrush!
The microbaloons seems more promising.
personally, I would be reluctant to try something not synthetic, but an adventurous soul might give "corn meal" a go in the larger scales. would look awkward in 1:35 or 1:24-5 to my eyes.
