Thinking about picking up some Tamiya weathering master sets for the rust and copper effects. Anyone use this stuff before?
I like it, but it’s not rust in the ring grooves, pretty sure it’s just dust. That’s why I’ve been using fillers earth
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I like to think it got dropped while filming in Yuma, hence sand! Darth Vader's greatest weakness........along with the high ground:lol
I like to think it got dropped while filming in Yuma, hence sand! Darth Vader's greatest weakness........along with the high ground:lol
Exactly, I think it’s just years of dust collected up in there.
I actually got some fillers earth from trooper bay and one of them is Tatooine sand lol
Mixing grey and red works pretty good, using hair spray for it to stick
But I just haven’t had enough free time to experiment
I took some pictures but it’s weird.. with out the flash on it doesn’t look like enough, put the flash on and it looks like there’s waaaaay too much
But in person it looks just right, I want to make it so when it’s photo graphed it matches Brandon’s Facebook picture
I’m starting work late this morning and if it all goes to plan, it never does... but if it does I should be home tonight normal time. Cleaned off my experiment rings and will try again
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I actually had the same idea! I purchased the same pack from Trooper Bay a couple of weeks ago with the same thought. I’ve never worked with it before, but was also planning on using hairspray to get it to stick. Did you spray the entire grenade section or use one of those wd-40 red nozzles to direct it where you wanted?
I havent had much time to work on it yet so I’m not that far along. Just preliminary weathering before I apply Trent’s stencils. I’m definitely loving the way it looks on yours so I’m excited to try it as well.
So hairspray doesnt make the paint wrinkle up or wipe off or anything?
Bit of an image dump but I think I'm done with the finishing ...for now Most recent addition is real rust in the 'grenade' grooves. I'm pretty sure it can't be rust on the real thing cos aluminum doesn't rust, but it sure looks like it so that's what I did!
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Been doing research on how to weather my v2 and I’ve come to the conclusion that this is above my pay grade as my first weathering project. Does anyone have any recommendations on who to work with to weather the piece for me?
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I've never worked with Jordan personally, but I've heard and seen good things and I am considering contacting him for my own. Check out his vid below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoqYDqsUaOc&feature=youtu.be
That’s who I had in mind but I’ve had difficulty getting ahold of him, granted it’s only been one day
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Been doing research on how to weather my v2 and I’ve come to the conclusion that this is above my pay grade as my first weathering project. Does anyone have any recommendations on who to work with to weather the piece for me?
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Don't sell yourself short though man. It's really not hard at all. You don't have to do all this crazy stuff that @halliwax is doing. Just running it through the dishwasher, dropping it around in some gravel, hitting it with a misting of black paint and wiping it back off a few times, and slapping the stencils on, it'll look really good. Besides, you'll be super proud of your work and it'll mean more to you that way.
The way I look at it is that you're trying to make it look old and beat up... so you can't really mess it up.