I have seen on other forums, guys using it. has anyone here used it for there weathering ?
if so, how good doe’s it look ? also how do you apply it ?
Ron
Yes I use them all the time.I buy mine at dollar stores and get quite an assortment of colours.While your at the dollar store pick up some make up brushs.The ones I use are little foam rubber caps on either wood or cardboard handles.
I like the looks of it myself.
Lady´s make-up powders are not “dry” powders, they usually contain some kind of “grease” to stick to the skin. I prefer to use dry powder pigments for weathering.
Sir Madog raises the primary issue for use of cosmetics for weathering: what’s in this stuff? Another is that they are meant to be applied rather thickly and are often intended to mask skin blemishes – not that many women have rivet detail on their faces, but that’s the issue for our uses.
We usually apply powders to flat or matte surfaces, and the Bradgon and other powders do not need grease or oil to adhere – I suppose there might be a potential use for the oily adhesive qualities of cosmetics to a glossy surface, such as spotches of new mud on a shiny new automobile. Having said that, is there much in the cosmetic line that looks like road mud?
But the cosmetic department is still worth a visit - the various brushes and applicators in the cosmetic department can be, as Cody Grivno recently pointed out, very useful for our purposes. Swabs that do not lose fibers because they are wound up fabric, not cotton balls, very soft brushes, small foam applicators, and the list goes on. Between the cosmetic department and a good art supply store, there is a host of useful tools that not even Micro Mark has featured.
Dave Nelson
Most make-up contains finely ground fish scales to add a touch of pearlessence - it helps it look more “alive” and less like paint. I’m not sure that the pearlescent look of fish scales is really what we’re after.
Why “Lady’s make-up” Got something against “Men’s make-up”? 
Most of my GER was weathered using make-up. I didn’t bother to check the gender of the make-up, I just used anything that didn’t contain glitter.
Blacks, whites, greys and earthtones seemed to work best.
You can check out the results in the links in my sig. line.
There was an article on this subject in Railroad Model Craftsman. I want to say it was in 1979 or sometime in the early 1980s.
Of course, some of us are already using hairspray (and the cheapest kind, no less) as an adhesive…
They apply it to look healthy, vibrant, younger and sometimes to hide aged areas. We apply it to look weather beaten, old, faded, tired, neglected and well used.
There’s some irony for ya…
I remember that article in RMC!, B&O units, not a bad idea at the time,with very limited resources. I am still a big fan of using Scotch pads to remove poor weathering jobs,and fading the lettering and paint a bit, Q-tips,make-up sponges,emery boards,rubbing alcohol,acetone and hair-spray… All on my work bench. If my Girlfriend thinks she missing something, I dont comment, we just go get more at the Wal-Mart.
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