Show us your weathering skills...

[tornado64]

baldwin s-12 switcher

[carnehan]

These weathered items look great.

Without the use of an airspray how can you get that splattered dirt effect that has been so well portrayed here?

My weathering stretches to acrylic washes. Have just completed this Hornby box van.

[TK421]

This is an example of the weathering I do and as I don't have an airbrush I developed a method using make up brushes.

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I use life colour paints they are thinner than railmatch and humbrol but still have a strong colour. I will brush a small amount of paint on a certain area and then take a make up blusher brush and move the brush quickly and in different direction to remove as much paint as possible, wiping excess on to some kitchen roll or the back of my hand (you will look very weathered yourself doing it that way). I will then gently use a stabbing motion with the blusher brush, the soft bristles removes the brush lines giving an airbrush effect. I will work with frame dirt, sleeper grime and weathered black building up the colour in layers.

[Admin4]

my first attempt but I am pleased with the results, the originals especially the red ones where to bright

[thebritfarmer]

Very nice Alex, what did you use?

[Admin4]

I used an airbrush and Tamiya X9 Brown paint straight from the pot and slowly build up the effect moving left to right and from a good distance to stop it building up to quickly

i just need to get some rubber gloves as i seem to have got more paint over my hands then i did the models

[carnehan]

Revisited the box van to try and give it a little bit of dirt and dust about it. The black acrylic wash just wasn't enough in my opinion. As pleased as I am with the outcome I think I can see the benefits of an airbrush.

[Streaks and Teaks]

My not very good first effort.

[GarrettTheThief]

tornado and alex, those are amazing weathering jobs.

I'm generally impressed with all the jobs on this page.

[lezjez]

Hi all,

Some great examples on here. I like the fact that there are many different ways of weathering and all can be used to get great effects.

I don't have an airbrush so I've tried with an acrylic wash, which I'm not sure about. I think I've put it on a bit heavy. I've also used a mix of DCC concepts weathering powder and ground up artist pastels.

The loco, wagons and retaining wall below were weathered with powders.


The platform and walls also weathered with powders

Liam

[Jim S-W]

not a loco this time



Detailed/ repainted Jeouf Mk3a

Cheers

Jim

[tornado64]

tornado and alex, those are amazing weathering jobs.

I'm generally impressed with all the jobs on this page.

cheers !! being an oil painter helps it is simply using a photo and doing what is there rather than what you think is there !! and always aim for underdone rather than going over the top

[tornado64]

My not very good first effort.

for a first effort that isn't so bad always remember some of the works you see are by people with many years of experience and some of thier first efforts would have been worse (mine certainly were !!)

[tornado64]

more a practice in doing rust and textures than accurate weathering although appart from the dirt the rusting is pretty good compared to photo refrence

only rusting difrent to photo is that on numbering that was done to hide damaged lettering

materials used were humbrol enamels and acrylics , carrs weathering powders , humbrol matt coat , oil paints , tamiya weathering powders ,and games workshop washes ,

[Streaks and Teaks]

My not very good first effort.

for a first effort that isn't so bad always remember some of the works you see are by people with many years of experience and some of thier first efforts would have been worse (mine certainly were !!)

Cheers tornado

Mark