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Originally Posted by ianc911
Can you elaborate a bit on how you get these effects? Are you airbrushing a base coat, then overcoating with a lighter color? Brush painting? Dry-brushing? All of the above? Please comment if you have the time, and thanks for posting!
ianc
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Hello ianc, the weathering is basically built up in two layers.
1. On top of the base color I start to shade. Usually I tend to use oil paints for this. The advantage for oil paints is that you can take away paint again when you see you have overdone something. That might be handy when you know that you are basically working on recessed areas.
2. To add some color, streaks, dirt etc I always use acrylics which are added by drybrushing. Most of the time they are just the standard Tamiya colors, but recently I also bought some of the LifeColor sets. These are very convenient when it comes to shades of black, rust etc. Highlighting is also done with acrylics, mostly flat alu or some shades of grey.
I must say that this engine is one of my best results so far. I am extremely happy with it myself.
Thanks for following.