Weathering gold gards? (firefly)

[DavidS]

Im sure there used to be a thread on this, but id like good suggestions for weathering the gold cards?

 

[Kadajiroth]

http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=8004&highlight=Tall+Card

That's the thread. Even says how the originals were weathered.

 

[F-N-S]

I ended up spray-painting them black and steelwooling it off, to age them.

From 'The official companion volume one'

 

[DavidS]

yeh read that in the companion....... just seemed TOO simple

 

[pennausamike]

I'm going to try this with Scotchbrite, which is slightly less abrasive than the steel wool.

Mike

 

[DavidS]

from all the pictures, they look more brown than black....

 

[robstyle]

thats because not all were weathered with paint. Some were as is.

 

[Nexus6]

yeh read that in the companion....... just seemed TOO simple

You're right, it IS too simple. Here's how I did mine.

And a shot of the results:

 

[Mr_Creepy]

Hey Stokes, ^ that ^ would be the post I told you about in IM! :lol

 

[DavidS]

ahhhh

gotcha!

awesome!

 

[Patattack]

from all the pictures, they look more brown than black....

I think the reason they look brown is because the cards are copper under the "gold" plating, and they were just sanded all the way down. Possibly.

EDIT: To clarify, I know for a fact that there's copper beneath the gold - I'm just not sure if it accounts for the brown color.

 

[Kaylee]

I think the brown is just a no-flash photo of the copper. The trick is to go far enough down to remove the gold, but no so far as to remove the design. Personally I didn't do so well on the ones I tried. bother.