Yes PLEASE, Info like this is a great help to all, and it gives you new ideas on a theme. The rust effect, was that done with the 2 part product ( don't know what it is called, but was shown it at the local model railway shop). The one I saw is painted with the first coat then the second coat reacts with the first to give the rust, Gotta get some.
Modellers are always storing bits of info away into dusty corners of their minds waiting for them to jump out at the relevent moment, well I do 
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Hi Fritzy and all,
Yes, you're right about the 2 part product. The one I used was available over here in Australia at the local hardware store in their craft section, so try Wickes or B&Q superstores over there. The brand was 'Chatsworth' that I used. You can get either a rust base effect or copper base effect. The activator is basically the same, so depending on whether you want rust or green verdigris. A sculptor friend of mine used to do lots of these effects and there are lots more you can achieve apart from these, but which usually involve special powders mixed together and added to casting resin (good for casting but not so good for paintwork post production effects).
My advice is to try a little and see how it works. It takes a good 24 hours for the full oxidisation to occur. Also I found that the areas that looked most rusty were often turned face downwards so that there was little 'run off' of the activator and it didn't dry out under my work lights.
HMMS Gladiator was 'kit bashed' using components from a 1/20 Machinen Krieger (Ma.k) kit, also called the 'Gladiator'. This is a long out of production range from Japan of super futuristic battle armour and vehicles which was produced in various scales. Rabbitz put me onto them originally. Just type in Ma.k in ebay and you'll see the sort of thing I mean.
This was the original kit:
and here are all the component parts in quite hi quality resin:
This kit seems to be a rip off casting. Here's the link to the e-bay shop in China where I got it from:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Resin-KIT-1-20-Ma-k-SAFS-Gladiator_W0QQitemZ120287699359QQihZ002QQcategoryZ16511QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItemI picked up 2 of them together as it saved on postage and the vendor was very quick to post and despite limited English he communicated with me quickly. So now I have enough bits to build the Mark V....
The remainder of the vessel incorporated mostly hardboard, balsa, an electrical extension socket for the boiler and sone plastic plumbing pipe to get the nice rounded firing bays on the upper deck. The figures are all Perries Naval brigade and Heliograph crew from their Sudan Range (you can see more of them on my Sudan battle report 'To the Last Man' on the Colonial page on this forum. The Gatling Guns are again from Perry.
The ships hardware such as bulkhead doors, steering wheels, gun mounts etc are from Reviresco. Their figures are nowhere near the sculpt quality of the aformentioned but I like their ship gear and cannons. Those doors actually do hinge and operate. Here's the site:
http://www.tin-soldier.com/Check out their VSF section and their colonial one too. Lots of interesting paper zeppelin models and strange aerial torpedoes for sale. Though I expect many members of this forum know all about them already.
The rust effect is enhanced (and gaps sealed) by a little wood filler. I use polyfilla woodflex. This gives a surface a nice 'tooth'. I do mean to still add rivets and have read an interesting article about breaking open a water filter insert and using the thousands of (ceramic?) beads inside.
HMMS Orca is actually a Wizards of the Coast Star Wars ATST "Wookie Hunter".
These are really cool little models (I got mine on ebay for about 3 quid) and although a rather bendy plastic the larger models in the range have more stiffness. I simply lopped the top section front off (luckily it is hollow inside), swivelled it 180 degrees and re-fixed it to become an open deck. The two turret sections are once again just plumbing pipe sawn in half and I felt gave it a nice visual link to it's big brother, HMMS Gladiator. The two huge side blasters were removed but I remounted one on a ball mounting (wooden jewellery bead) underneath and added another jewellery piece as the funnel of the flamethrower. I made it an underbody mounting after I mounted it between the legs and found this to be....shall we say not in good taste (Queen Victoria would not have been amused).
Hope that helps. Now I have to focus on my Martian pirate atack ships and my British mobile steam artillery. More pics to come..
TJG
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