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One technique I've used to show a rusting (rather than brand new) item is to first spray it with some rust colored spray paint (Rust-Oleum primer, Krylon camouflage paint [it's got an extra extra flat finish] and then spray it with some silver paint. Start by spraying the silver from a fair distance (1-2 feet) and rotating the to-be-painted item you can control how "new" you want the item to appear. Of course it's best to do this painting on the unassembled parts. <br />PS: The Krylon camouflage spray paints have an extra flat fini***o them--perfect for modeling. I've been able to consistenly find them at military base exchanges, and sometimes a Wal-Mart / K-Mart. They're available in many colors we typically weather our structures in (olive drab, black, several grays, off-white, several browns, blues, etc).
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