Weathering plastic

[nice-biscuit]

I am in the process of weathering my pauldron for my Sandtrooper armour. What is the best way to weather / wear a coated plastic. For example to fade the colour, break down the structure. I will be using sandpaper and other things like that but I wondered if there was a specific technique. Paint stripper has worked well too. Once I have the desired look I will muddy it up using Fuller Earth Etc. Here how it looks at the moment with no weathering.

 

[RoCKo]

i did the pauldron like the rest of my sandtrooper suit with Woodland Scenics' Earth Colors Liquids.
i followed Brak´sBuddy´s great tutorial:
http://www.looksirdroids.com/replica_dirty_tutorial.htm

 

[TMP]

Take a very fine sandpaper and rubb it a bit. Then add red alcohold ( we call it Redsprite) It will matt it a bit. wipe it of.

Now take some acrylic spray paint found in a model shop. buy the prefferd colours. I advice use a bit darker paint than you plan to have i tell you why.

Apply the paint in aras and wife or padd of right after with a spunge.

Now once the paint is on then take a new spunge and soke it it red alcohol. one it gets on the paint it will take away some of the colour of the paint and it will give it a vvery nice and natural weathering.


For abs plastic soke a spunge in red alcohol and wipe it on the suit. Then sand down the suit with the finest sand paper you find while the red alcohol is on the paper. it will remove the gloss. Now the sand paper have made som small groves or a surface that is not so smoth as before. Now add the colour of choice and soke it in the suit. Start with darkst colour.
For areas you want the colour to stick use higher sandpaper grade so its rouger it will leave more paint in this area. Then wipe of with red sprite it will remove the most but leave the paint in a vey fin underlaying tone. Then take areas for the rest of the weathering.

 

[JBReplicas]

Kick it around your back yard for a few hours, and voila!:lol

 

[nice-biscuit]

i did the pauldron like the rest of my sandtrooper suit with Woodland Scenics' Earth Colors Liquids.
i followed Brak´sBuddy´s great tutorial:
http://www.looksirdroids.com/replica_dirty_tutorial.htm

Awesome armour Rocko. I've seen some of work around the forums. I know of the tutorial you are referring to and I'll certainly use that. Thanks for the pointer.

 

[nice-biscuit]

Great Stuff!! Thank you for all the good advice , I fancy doing all of the above. Ill see TMP if I can get hold of some Redsprite here in the UK. I'll post some pics when I'm done trashing, rubbing and colouring.

 

[nice-biscuit]

Just a quick post to show what I have done so far.
I couldn't get hold of any Redsprite so I thought I would try paint stripper. Worked quite well at removing the gloss and taking colour away from the orange to give a slight sun faded look. Kicked around the garden and drive. Took a rasp then a file to the edges. Sanded and then painted using oil paint and fullers earth. A bit of a work in progress

 

[Darth Lars]

I couldn't get hold of any Redsprite so I thought I would try paint stripper.

What we call "Rödsprit" over in Sweden is just denatured alcohol (ethanol). Some types of paints don't like it.

 

[TMP]

Yes that is correct and that is why the colours fade in strengt. making the effcts very cool. Dark brown gets pale brown.

 

[nice-biscuit]

What we call "Rödsprit" over in Sweden is just denatured alcohol (ethanol). Some types of paints don't like it.

I'll try this out. Ethanol shouldn't be too hard to get hold of.

 

[The Manlet]

That looks like an SB pauldron. Anyway here are shots of some i have done. If you want i can explain how it was done.

I tried a diffrent weathering approach for the orange pauldron

 

[nice-biscuit]

As you know Gundam I love your work. Any weathering tips would be as welcome as a SB pauldron.
By the way off topic, put me down for some cast resin red and green buttons for a Vader box. Being Junkyard I can't reply on that thread at the moment.

 

[The Manlet]

As you know Gundam I love your work. Any weathering tips would be as welcome as a SB pauldron.
By the way off topic, put me down for some cast resin red and green buttons for a Vader box. Being Junkyard I can't reply on that thread at the moment.

Alrighty I'll explain in the e-mail i owe you.

 

[nice-biscuit]

Cheers Gundam. TE2 expected around August so I can practice on my pauldron.

 

[Spankuh]

I need to re-weather mine, can you pass on your tips to me as well?

HH

 

[nice-biscuit]

Thanks for the tips on weathering Gundam.
Ahh very interesting so where did you get the Wookie dung from?

 

[The Manlet]

Thanks for the tips on weathering Gundam.
Ahh very interesting so where did you get the Wookie dung from?

uh?

 

[nice-biscuit]

A little jest on my part. The secret to that natural look. Actually a supurb tutorial, but no armour to do put it into practice.

 

[The Manlet]

A little jest on my part. The secret to that natural look. Actually a supurb tutorial, but no armour to do put it into practice.

It works the same for the pauldron, there are many tricks to it, i only made a tutorial for one of them:wacko

 

[tk0000]

Hope to see some pics of you're TE2 when you you weather it.

Could you send me the tutorial too please?