Hi i wonder if anybody out there weathers the way i do its cheap and fun , all you need is talc powder bit of paint and very dirty white spirit . just apply your paint where needed and water down with dirty white spirit and blow the talc on in the direction the stock would recieve the most muck it works a treat. something else ive tried is if you paint a roof with mattt black paint ,let it go of slightly and then blow talc across roof very effective good fun . any one tried this saves on airbrush ?.
What is “dirty white spirit”?
White Spirit is something we use to clean paint brushes, though I’m not sure what the chemicals in it are. I’d guess this is a variant of the old “dirty thinners” approach where you’d use the grungy old paint thinner (that you’d already used to clean brushes repeatedly) as a general weathering substance - it’ll make paint run slightly and cause grime to collect in the detail of the model, much as it would on the real thing.
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Any photos of the finished model using this method?
Hi reguarding photo i will try to chuck one on oh bye the way i use white spirit because its not as strong as thinners so no damage to plastic.
I use this method, too! [:)]
To a degree, tho’. I try to keep a jar of “spirits” that is only used to clean brushes that have earth tones. Browns, black and white, and greys and such. Cleaning a couple of brushes wtih steel colored paint adds a little metalic flavor, should the project require it. I’ll have to try the talcum powder(or baby powder?) trick.
A cool way to create a feathered effect from road grime is to use a spongy material to smudge the dirty spirits in the direction of the splash on battery boxes and walkway edges.
Caution: One thing you have to be aware of if you try this method is not to scrub with the paint brush over any lettering as it might wear it off. I’ve had to re-decal a loco the first time I tried it. Try it on an older junk piece to practice with at first!
The locomotives in this photo were all weathered using this method to some degree:
I use acrylics and other water-soluble paints so I normally don’t have paint thinner–I get my weathering effects mostly from ink washes and drybrushing.