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Late for weekend phote fun, early for mid week again...
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by rgroeling</i> <br /><br />Great work!!!!!! <br /> <br />Would you mimd telling us how u did that??? If you don't want to I understand... <br /> <br /> I am trying to model a rural setting and could use a few rusty ol' rigs like that! <br /> <br />NICE WORK[^][:D][8D][;)][bow][bow] <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />I didnt do anything special really. <br /><ul> <br /><li>Started by carefully prying up Duke the dog, the other items in the bed and the front bumber with a #17 Exacto.</li> <br /><li>Then marked off areas I wanted hard wear with a soft pencil and then went over those areas firmly with some fine grain sandpaper.</li> <br /><li>The added scoremarks to the bed and sides were there had been scrapes with a scriber.</li> <br /><li>Washed the model heavily with a blackwash of India ink mixed with alsohol</li> <br /><li>Painted the whole mess with Polly Scale Reading Green</li> <br /><li>Painted large areas rust with Model Master rust #4675</li> <br /><li>Washed again with the blackwash </li> <br /><li>The went back and highlighted again with the Reading Green to bring out highlights and circle the rust and make the areas more defined. </li> <br /><li>Painted around the undercarriage and wheel hubs with some earth colored paint (forget the brand). </li> <br /><li>Then washed it heavily again with the blackwash. </li> <br /><li> Then to finish I go back with a firm bru***hat is very wet with Acryl Cleaner and I wash away blackwa***o get it where I want it and to make 'clean areas' and then repaint any highlights I want to stand out like the radiator grill and headlights. </li> <br /></ul> <br /> <br />That's it.. I dont have any boss items yet like weathering powders etc, but I can't wait to try them. <br />Hope that aids in anyway.. Heaven knows I'm no big dog like some of our great wheatherers here *tips hat to them*
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