| You have just finished assembling your latest | | | | to have spots of thick paint over the top of your |
| model car. It is a vintage 1950's era sedan but | | | | undercoat which can look very bad. |
| something about it just doesn't seem right. It is all | | | | Once you have the wash prepared you are ready |
| new and shiny and totally out of place in the here | | | | to apply it. Dip your paintbrush very lightly into the |
| and now. You want to make it look like it has just | | | | wash. You do not want to load your brush with |
| been dug out of the weeds after sitting in | | | | the color because it can be very hard to control |
| someone's yard for the past forty years or so. | | | | how much you leave behind on your vehicle. By |
| How can you get this sort of realism out of your | | | | just dipping the tip of your brush in it will allow the |
| model car? You could try leaving it in the dirt and | | | | rest of the brush to draw some of the wash into |
| dust for awhile and see what happens or you | | | | it. Now touch your brush lightly to your model car. |
| could weather it prematurely yourself. You can | | | | It should be in a spot where you want the rust to |
| imagine which would be the easier route. | | | | start. |
| Weathering a model car is a rather simple process | | | | Draw your brush away from this point which will |
| that does not require too many extra supplies. | | | | make it appear that the rust is radiating from the |
| You just need to have some red and brown ink, | | | | area. It can make the difference between it |
| a brush and some water. You can go ahead and | | | | looking real and it looking like a poor attempt at |
| paint your model car as you normally would. One | | | | painting fake rust. Once you have applied your |
| thing you might want to do is to intentionally leave | | | | wash in this manner give it time to dry. The |
| some spots thin. This will help the rusted areas to | | | | length of time it takes to dry will depend on how |
| stand out better. Other than that you should have | | | | much color you have applied. |
| a nice even coating over your model car. Once | | | | If you want to make the rust stand out even |
| your ink has time to dry you can prepare your | | | | more then you can repeat the previous steps. |
| ink "rust." | | | | Each time you do this it will add a layer to the |
| To prepare this ink you will need to mix regular | | | | model car that it did not have before making it |
| ink in the color combination you want and then | | | | look older and older. The more you add the more |
| combine it in a 1 to 1 ratio with water. This will | | | | weathered it will appear. Make sure to mix |
| give you what is referred to as a wash. A wash | | | | different washes each time. Rust is not uniform in |
| will leave behind a light paint residue without | | | | color so neither should your wash. With a bit of |
| covering up the base coat that is underneath. | | | | practice you will be creating vintage model cars in |
| Make sure that you completely blend the water | | | | no time at all. |
| and ink. If the wash is separated it can cause you | | | | |