Barry! How's your Solo Elite weathering coming along?

[Betamin]

The pic you showed of the flash hider weathering you had started has me tempted to weather my gun once it arrives. Please post some pics if you get a chance to let us see how the gun will look if we decide to weather ours. Thanks.

Dave

 

[Betamin]

Bumped so maybe he'll see it....

 

[kuyadavid]

Barry never replied to this, but I thought I would dredge it up again since I just got the email saying my solo EE was ready for immediate shipping.

I plan to weather mine as well and I would REALLY appreciate any tips people have for either materials or techniques.

The rust treatment that Barry did was awesome.

Suggestions, anyone?

 

[Betamin]

:lol I honestly thought this thread was deleted, by the way it disappeared..

I too got my email about delivery, but what worries me is the tracking number shows an item that was already delivered and signed by some girl named Ashley......... :eek

 

[Betamin]

I made a Solo ANH blaster years ago, and did a lot of sanding with a high grit sandpaper on the raised areas that would get wear and tear faster than other areas from being pulled out of the holster, and banged around against objects in a "real world" sense of usage. Just look at the high points that you'd see would get banged around more than others and work on those. I looked at pics online and in books of the blaster to see where it had more wear and tear to attempt to match it up a bit.

 

[Clutch]

I'm wondering how to get the weathering to look right myself. If I drybrush silver onto the black it ends up looking, well, drybrushed. If I paint silver first, or steel, and then black over that and sand it. It ends up looking like I sandpapered it with lots of fine scratches.

 

[Talisen]

Try rub n buff. Apply a tiny smear to your finger and smear that on the edges. let it dry for a few sec, then buff.

 

[Clutch]

good tip. how would I go about getting a 'hard edge' to the weathering if I wanted that kind of look?

 

[JOATRASH FX]

A method I used on my Pulse Rifle:

1. Base coat
2. laquer/thinner based silver/metal spray paint (if it stinks a lot, then it's probably ok to use). Leave to cure THOROUGHLY.
3. Tamiya (or other) acrylic top coat.

Get yourself some REGULAR Ajax window cleaner (used as thinner when airbrushing some acrylics, like Tamiya's). Soak a cloth, sponge or piece of cotton in the window cleaner and rub it where you want the weathering. The Ajax will dissolve the acrylic top coat and reveal the silver underneath, which should resist the Ajax much longer (if it even affects it at all).

This method is also useful to achieve "stain" effects by adding a few drops of another color acrylic to the Ajax.

Hope that helps.