preparation: 2 hours
cost: 50 polish dollars
difficulty: not super very difficult ***
so for this operation we will need:
maskol
airbrush
tamya putty
yellow tac
2 hands:one left and one right
used brushes but with more or less thin point
white primer
paints for airbrush
4 sausages with ketchup
we begin by prime in GW white our object, in this case I have chosen a forgeworld tank blade.
Normaly, I had to use some mr neo surfacer to make smooth the whole object, but today I had no time so let?s go to work like a piglet??
Click to see full-sized imageI would like to make some texture on it, if you want you could skip this step.
For this I use some tamya putty, I put some puty on a plate and with a big brush take puty and just put it on my blade.
Then I?m taping the putty with my brush, to give an effect of hard rust attack
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Click to see full-sized imageafter this step, you have to wait about 30 minutes to let the putty dry on your object.
While drying take a plate with a fork and knife.
It?s important to not skip this step, ou risk to have bad rust.
Then put on your plate the 4 sausages and the ketchup.
Take the forks and the knife, cut a piece of sausage, put it in the ketchup and then in your mouth, swallow the piece of sausage, and repeat the operation until you don?t have sausages anymore in your plate.
Now your putty is dry?..
Click to see full-sized imagenow we will base our blade with our first rust color.
So we mount our airbrush, and regulate the flow on a white paper, to avoid mistake on our object.
Don?t forget to wash scrupulously your airbrush between each different color apply.
Problem of acrylics is that they dry too quickly with airbrush.
So the airbrush could be stop quite quickly.
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Click to see full-sized imagethen we apply our scond layer of rust, a darker one.
We will apply but not on the whole object, only where the rust could be the most older.
Young rust is orange, old rust is more blue dark, so try to find on your object the place where the rust could be the most older.
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Click to see full-sized imagenow, it?s time to use a bad smell product ?maskol?, you could find it in all modeling shop.
This is like a latex tape.
Click to see full-sized imageto apply it, we will use he sponge technic.
Take piece of green sponge, you know the one who is the hard part of two compound sponge.
If your wife or your mother catch you stealing and cutting a piece of sponge, be unaware of their remarks and just told them, with a totally detached attitude, ?you, my dear didn?t understand nothing to the art, it is not the artist who is going to the paint but the inverse?.
Using the moment to escape while your mother or wife try to understand the sentence you just told him, come back to your project. (I can bet that after such a sentence your mother or your wife will have the biggest respect for you )
Here is the tool:
Click to see full-sized imagewith the sponge,you take some maskol on it and tape it on a tissu to remove the biggest part of the maskol (more or less the drybrush technic)
Click to see full-sized imagethen you tape your sponge on the blade, and you repeat the operation until you are satisfied of he result.
Beware to never use maskol with a brush, because maskol can?t be remove by any thinner, so the brush will definitely out of order.
Click to see full-sized imagenow, we should let the maskol dry, count about 15 minutes.
If you have again some sausages, do no hesitate?..
Now we will apply our last airbrush layer.
I use a turquoise color, for this I have melt one blue and green/kaki and a grey to desaturate the color and then make a contrast with the rust.
Click to see full-sized imageI apply a darkest first layer on whole he object.
Click to see full-sized imageonce dry, a second one lighter and with a litl zenithal effect, I mean that I only airbrush from the top of the object.
Click to see full-sized imagenow. It?s time to leat appear tis bloody rust.
I use for this some yellow tac, but you could use blue tac or white tac.
I think that a school gum could work to, but I haven?t try.
Click to see full-sized imagein fact I use my yellow tac like a gum to remove the liquid maskand then lt appear our rust.
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Click to see full-sized imagenow we will give more volume to our rust.
Just under it with a fine brush, apply a very thin line of the turquoise color but with a lot of white in it.
It will give you this aspect of deepness to your scratches.
Click to see full-sized imagenow we will add rust but with several washes of brown in all the edges, to give our object some deepness and richness.
We could simulate some thine line of brown under rivet, to simulate a run out of rust.
Click to see full-sized imageand then we will add some glazes of bleached bone to figure out the different part of the blade.
Click to see full-sized imageI hope it will help you, see ya soon
Stef.