vehicule weathering

[tsar1701]

Hi everbody,
here's my second test of vehicule weathering.

Is it realist ?
Any comments are welcome. 

[Hammers]

That's a real beauty! Did you use the Maskol trick for the peeling paint?

[tsar1701]

Thanks 

Yes it was maskol.
I saw another method on the web with water and cooking salt, but it need waterproof paint and I have only acrylic.

[Ignatieff]

That's a real beauty! Did you use the Maskol trick for the peeling paint?

What's the Maskol trick?  That's a fabulous finish!

[Mr.J]

That looks absolutely spot on!
A walkthrough of the techniques you used would be good.

[cheetor]

Very impressive, nice work!

A walkthrough of the techniques you used would be good.

Seconded.

[tsar1701]

What's the Maskol trick?  That's a fabulous finish!

It's a sort of liquid latex, you put it between two coats of paint, then you remove it to make visible the color of the first coat.
(hope my english is comprehensive)

That looks absolutely spot on!
A walkthrough of the techniques you used would be good.

Very impressive, nice work!


Seconded.

Thanks a lot

[Malamute]

Wow, thats very convincing I like it alot.

Don't have much need to paint rust on things myself, but If I did I would surely try this approach

[former user]

Quite good actually
The only thing - the rust colour beneath the Maskol spots is a bit too blueish red.

I did experiment a lot myself before I got it acceptable (for me)
I finally came up with a mix of plain dark brown and orange. The trick is to avoid any blue component in the rust colour.
here are results:




my impression is that I got the rust colour on the tracks best, while the hopper was corrected because I found it too orange. The sel-discharging hopper is made with salt and water.

As a result I use both salt and water and Maskol - I don't have pictures for this yet

[Axebreaker]

Nice,it's looking pretty effective.

Christopher

[cuprum]

Beautiful work!
But coaches and armored car look abandoned. I seem, it is necessary to show and fresh damages of the paint. The Upper band of the rail must be a polished metal if on she moves the train. 

[Johnno]

Looks good to me!

[bluewillow]

excelent job,

As a suggestion, I would add worn metalic shine on the door hinges and edges to give it a more lived in look.

cheers
matt

[former user]

thx
Sorry, I did not intend to hijack this thread, only to give examples

As a suggestion, I would add worn metalic shine on the door hinges and edges to give it a more lived in look.

I have considered that, and have done it with the wooden cars. The hopper is not yet 100% finished, since I rebuild the first vesrion due to technical problems

But coaches and armored car look abandoned. I seem, it is necessary to show and fresh damages of the paint. The Upper band of the rail must be a polished metal if on she moves the train.

the rail is indeed silver polished on top, not very visible on this picture, but here

you can see the whole collection here
http://s886.photobucket.com/albums/ac61/former user_the_anarchist/Railway/RW-WIP/
the wooden cars have all freshly peeled paint spots on the wood.
It is meant to look "abandonded" as in a war. I chose a medium state of weathering - there are worse examples than this even from peacetime pictorial reference. The metal waggons are alway very rusted because they are constantly used with loose freight like stones, coal etc which scratch the paint. The waggons are in a better state on the chassis and also the liquid tank.
If You mean the green armoured train, yes, I wanted this to look very used, with damaged paint where it was struck by bullets and ordnance, same as with the armoured car shown above  However I am not 100% content with it and it already has been overworked several times

[Bako]

As a result I use both salt and water and Maskol

For the salt and water technique would one apply the salt to presh paint and later apply salt after the paint has dried to simply dissolve the salt?

The Upper band of the rail must be a polished metal if on she moves the train. 

Indeed. The more used the rail the smarter the shine!