wow awesome looking rust effects
I agree with Dao2, the rusting looks awesome. Whats your process for it?, I really like the lighter blotches in the rusted parts looks really good.
The rusting looks great on that piece. I have to agree with lilykill and ask what your process was to get that effect. If I didn't know I would guess it really was some rusted up metal.
Thanks guys! Glad you guys like it, I'm pretty happy with it myself.
To get the rust effect, I used this stuff:
You basically paint on the Iron Metallic Surfacer. Let it sit overnight, then you apply the rusting solution on the areas you applied the Iron paint. It then starts to rust up the iron, leaving a very light and bright orange rust. Now keep in mind, that's how the directions say to do it, but you need to take it a step further. After letting the rusting solution do it's thing, I then leave the parts outside to get wet. Either a rain, or even just leaving it outside overnight to get covered in dew. The getting it wet will cause it to rust even further, and more aggressively. The light orange will be replaced with an older looking dark red rust. This also increases the texture, giving a more aggressive and porous look. The lighter orange spots are where there was literally small beads of water from the dew just sitting there rusting away.
So basically, it
is rusted metal. The funny thing I found doing this on a test piece of scrap was that leaving the Iron Surfacer untreated with the rusting solution, and then leaving it outside to get wet, it
did not rust. The Surfacer has to be treated to start the rusting process.
But overall, the stuff is real easy to use, and cleans up well with just warm water. Shaping the rust areas was a matter of careful paint brush work, sort of jabbing in some of the areas to make it look more authentic.
So, I also have been meaning to post some pics of this little guy. This is lilykill's Frag Grenade model that I've printed up and smoothed out. I'm waiting until I can get some silicone to make a mold for it, I'm looking forward to cold casting me a bunch of them. Gonna cold cast the end pieces in brass powder, and the other parts in aluminum powder. Then I'll be able to paint with OD green and yellow matte paints and scratch them up naturally. I think they're gonna look really good once finished.
Big thanks to lilykill for this one. This model was designed
beautifully simple and effective. Assembly for this thing is just
too easy. A fun one to do for sure. :thumbsup
