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 A few suggestions: 1. Kill the shine. Dullcoat or flat paints 2. Repaint details. A little time painting smoke stacks, railings, window frames will add to the detail and interest. 3. As mentioned earlier roofing material. Fine sand paper for tarpaper, fine gravel etc. 4. Color correct for the lighting. 5. Try weathering darker colors lighter and lighter colors a little darker. 6. Plant the building on the layout with no visible line at the ground. A lot of buildings I see have a seam at the foundation where they haven't been seated correctly. Looks like they are floating.... Techniques include: -- Alcohol/India ink washes (a little is better than too much) --Paint washes. Try wet on wet to blend thin washes of color together --Rustall: works on metal tanks etc. try underpainting another color --Bragdon chalks. These are very good for dry dusty look. Try underpainting surfaces almost the color of the powder and apply a heavy powder coat when paint is dry, looks like old cruddy paint --Scratchback. Good for use on plastic surfaces to simulated peeling paint. paint grey under coat, paint on desired overcoat, scratch over coat back with a wire brush, eraser or stiff plastic brush when paint is dry, but still fresh.. You can also use rubber cement to mask the second coat and then rub it off. --Dry brush white. Rub brush full of white paint until almost no paint left in brush apply to details to high light. A little goes a long way India ink and alcohol can run and bead up, so be careful. I try to use the lighting that the object will be seen in on the layout and then attempt to get the overall degree of of lightness of color to look right with whatever technique I am using. India Ink and other techniques can make stuff look too dark in the end so watch the hues and saturation. Most of these techniques take practice. The secret to good weathering is to not give up. You may have a few objects turn out not so good (see previous post for those situations), I know several MMRs who have marginal weathering jobs hidden in the back of their layouts...
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