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This is gonna be a fairly short tutorial. The Deuce Barn Baby was weathered with a simple technique known as washing.
Start with a flat black base coat
.
Washes
stick best to a matte surface, they tend to roll off a glossy finish. I used
Tamiya
acrylics
, flat brown, flat red and red brown, with some flat black and a few grays, diluted heavily with water.
Start with a fresh palette and a wide brush. Dip the brush into the paint, then onto the palette. Dip the brush into water, as if you're going to clean it, then go back to the palette. Three or four loads of water should be enough to create a suitably thin wash. Then go to town on the body, being careful NOT to apply it evenly. You want it splotchy and uneven. Do the whole body, frame, etc in brown, then wait for it to dry. Then go back and do it over, this time in red. A few splotches of red-brown, dripped into the wash while it's still good & wet, will give a nice extra splash of rust where you want it.
Brake drums, backing plates, exhaust pipes and other highly-rusted areas I just painted with red-brown, with a few red highlights, then treated to a black wash to bring out the details.
Mix some fine sand
with the red-brown if you want really heavy rust, like on the headers and pipes.
Tamiya
clear blue and clear yellow adds some heat-treating to the chrome pipes, since the real ones never stay chrome for very long.
Tamiya
smoke works well for dulling headlight reflectors. Those of you with long memories will recall sealed-beam headlights that went dark with age, and
Tamiya
smoke on the reflectors simulates this perfectly. Smoke mixed with brown makes a realistic oil leak.
That's about it. Told you it was easy :)
Oh, the voltage regulator was cut from the chrome firewall, and wired with Detail Master
1/24 scale spark plug wires.
Start with a flat black base coat
.
Washes
stick best to a matte surface, they tend to roll off a glossy finish. I used
Tamiya
acrylics
, flat brown, flat red and red brown, with some flat black and a few grays, diluted heavily with water.Start with a fresh palette and a wide brush. Dip the brush into the paint, then onto the palette. Dip the brush into water, as if you're going to clean it, then go back to the palette. Three or four loads of water should be enough to create a suitably thin wash. Then go to town on the body, being careful NOT to apply it evenly. You want it splotchy and uneven. Do the whole body, frame, etc in brown, then wait for it to dry. Then go back and do it over, this time in red. A few splotches of red-brown, dripped into the wash while it's still good & wet, will give a nice extra splash of rust where you want it.
Brake drums, backing plates, exhaust pipes and other highly-rusted areas I just painted with red-brown, with a few red highlights, then treated to a black wash to bring out the details.
Mix some fine sand
with the red-brown if you want really heavy rust, like on the headers and pipes.
Tamiya
clear blue and clear yellow adds some heat-treating to the chrome pipes, since the real ones never stay chrome for very long.Tamiya
smoke works well for dulling headlight reflectors. Those of you with long memories will recall sealed-beam headlights that went dark with age, and
Tamiya
smoke on the reflectors simulates this perfectly. Smoke mixed with brown makes a realistic oil leak.That's about it. Told you it was easy :)
Oh, the voltage regulator was cut from the chrome firewall, and wired with Detail Master
1/24 scale spark plug wires.Show Complete First Post
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