I’ve searched the forums and seen dozens of messages about using make-up brushes for weathering, but not much on using the actual make-up itself for weathering on cars and locomotives. There’s a guy on you tube that does a demo using make-up…has anybody used these materials, do they work well, and do they stand up indoors over time?
Thanks Gents. If I can figure out how to post pictures, or somewhere to host pictures and then post, I’ll share some of my weathering attempts.
Makeup works well, if you avoid the shiney stuff. You can buy makeup without it. That’s all I know, for more ask your Mrs…
Have fun,
Ernie C
Good question! I have been thinking along the same lines myself. My wife buys sets of makeup, but never uses the colours that would work well in the hobby (like black, grey, sparkly ones, etc). So I too was wondering, mostly what, if any, effect the makeup might have on the painted surfaces of my models. Do they use some sort of fixative that may have a negative reaction, especially over time?
If they’re bad for the model what about the wife? Just food for thought
I weathered an older Pola Factory with make-up and I think it turned out good. I’ll get some pictures of it either tonight or in the morning and post them. Let me know what you fellas think.
Fair enough and actually, my wife does have reactions to certain types/coloures of makeup. But it is also removed after 12 hrs or so, not left on for ever, like it would be on our models.
Unless you’re using left-over makeup, it is far more expensive than a set of weathering chalks.
Knowing that makeup was expensive, I bought my wife a set of weathering chalks to be used AS makeup.
For some reason she wasn’t as grateful as she could have been. [(-D]
Andre
My one and only use of make-up in model railroading:
In the late 1970s, my father, who was known to bring in left-over stuff from the shops (I never liked this ‘garbage picking’ proto-freecycle habit of his - although once he scored a whole set of 1940s/1950s National Geographic, Time, and Life magazines, which was when I first learned that not only railroads advertised their Passenger Services in national print, but so did railcar manufacturers (namely Budd) do so too - I still have several of the RDC ads in my files), brought home a bunch of nail polish, I suppose for my mom. However, they were typical 1970s garish colors (I remember a chocolate brown, a dark green, and a metallic purple, among others), so they ended up with me since I used paint for my models of course, and nail polish is a kind of paint…
Concurrently I acquired the infamous bag of 50 automobiles for a few bucks that AHC was always advertising in it’s (then) big ad spreads in Model Railroader - simple one piece modeled shells of various vehicles (I remember an Auburn), not much detail but some were decent enough for (really) background or parking garages (if you sliced off the molded in names some had on there trunks).
OK, so it’s obvious where this is going, but I must admit - the nail polish really covered those slick plastic vehicles with a nice smooth finish, some of the non-metallic colors looked decent (if only I knew about dull-coat at the time), and the finishes lasted for years ( a decade) with no chipping or flaking.
Even better, at the time I also painted a squadron of 1/700 or something naval planes for a model of the WWII Enterpise I had, and those shiny Metallic Green and Blue fighters and torpedo bombers (those color combos are what really defeated the Japanese) lasted for over 2 decades until I repainted the aircraft to server as big HO scale R/C planes.
"Knowing that makeup was expensive, I bought my wife a set of weathering chalks to be used AS makeup.
For some reason she wasn’t as grateful as she could have been."
But did you tell her about applying the top coat of Dullcote? I’ll bet you forgot.
My wife and I all ready fight over finger nail polish remover and clear nail polish. Now she is going to want my make up as well![V]