This area of the Techniques Bank, Model Weathering and Finishing Techniques, will help you to add character, realism and artistic influence to your painted model. The result will be less like a replica toy and more of a scale representation of the original subject which incorporates artistic features to make it visually compelling. Additionally, the presentational aspects of your finished model will be addressed looking at the design and construction of decorative bases and dioramas.
Top Gun Special! Building Maverick’s F-14A Tomcat 1:48
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A Beginners Tutorial – How to Build a 1:35 AFV Kit: Tamiya 1:35 Steyr 1500
- Part 1 Construction – 1 Full Length HD Video Demo Tamiya 1:35 Steyr 1500
- Part 2 Painting, Decals – 1 Full Length HD Video Demo Tamiya 1:35 Steyr 1500
- Part 3 Weathering – 1 Full Length HD Video Demo Tamiya 1:35 Steyr 1500
AK Weathering Pencils
- How to use metallic weathering pencils Part 1 – Video Demo
- How to use the non-metallic weathering pencils – Video Demo
- Metallic Effects Set AK 10046 – Video Demo
Chips and scratches
- Adding chips and scratches to your AFVs
- Aluminium paint chipping – paintbrush approach – Video Demo
- Armour paint chipping – sponge – Video Demo
- Armour paint chipping – brush – Video Demo
- Chipping Effect on a Zaku – how to do it with Mig Jimenez – Video Demo
- Heavy scratches and chips using Frisk Artists’ Blue Mask – 3 Video Demos
- How to apply AMMO Gunmetal Pigment with a Rubber Brush – Video Demo
- How to chip – Mr Color paint
- How to Paint Winter Camouflage – Video Demo
- Japanese WWII aircraft paint chipping
- Metallic Effects Set AK 10046 – Video Demo
- Paint chips and scuffs on aircraft – Video Demo
- Pure Graphite Sticks to create paint chips and scratches – Video Demo
- Speckling technique for bombs, shells and stores
- Sponge chipping
- Use Marmite of course! Love it or hate it, it works!
- Weathering wing roots with Ralph Riese
- Winter white wash paint chipping – 5 Video Demos
Decals
- AMMO Hot Dog Hot Air Gun – how to use – Video Demo
- Applying decals
- Applying decals with Klear/Future for a painted-on look – 5 Video Demos
- eduard decals – issues with their new decals 2022
- Eliminating paint ridges left from masking – Video Demo
- How to Apply Decals – Video Demo
- How to Apply Decals using AMMO Decal Set and Fix – Video Demo
- How to remove decals from your model – Video Demo
- Humbrol Decal Fix – how to use it plus options – Video Demo
- Preventing translucent see-through effect with white decal
- ‘Silvering’ getting rid of it
- Ultimate Decal Solution Holder (for Micro Set and Sol) – Video Demo
- Ultimate Decal Solutions, how to use them – 2 Video Demos
- Using Mr Mark Setter as both a setter and softening agent
- Why a gloss finish? Materials you’ll need
Dirt, Grime and Streaking effects
- Dirt, Grime and Streaking effects – 3Video Demos
- How to use AMMO Shaders – Video Demo
- How to use AMMO Streakingbrusher Effects – Video Demo
- Streaking Effects, how to by Mig Jimenez – Video Demo
- Ultimate Pigments – how to use them – Video Demo
- How to weather clear parts – Video Demo
Display bases
- Aircraft models displayed in flight
- Armour multi-purpose base
- Charred wood effects for dioramas
- Diorama Accessory Kits
- Displaying models in flight with Heinz Johannsen
- Creating a River Bed Diorama – 4 Video Demos
- Flockit Static Grass Applicator – how to use it! – 3 Video Demos
- Cracked concrete for diorama bases – Video Demo
- Frosty covered ground for tanks
- Groundwork and seascape tips by Mike Moore
- How to create realistic concrete roads and slabs
- How to make a seascape scale model diorama tutorial – Video Demo
- How to make a muddy field and muddy road – Video Demo
- How to make a simple Diorama Base : Normandy 1944 – Video Demo
- How to make a simple grass field base – Video Demo
- How to create an aircraft display base in 30 minutes! – 12 Video Demos
- How to use AMMO pigments – Video Demo
- How to work with tropical vignettes – Video Demo
- How to use the AMMO Winterizer Real Snow Set – Video Demo
- How to use The Lush Jungles Set from AMMO of Mig Jimenez – Video Demo
- Leaf Maker Punch Tools for Dioramas and Bases
- Marston Mat Landing Strip Scale Modelling Diorama
- Modern jet aircraft base
- Mounting a Leopard on a realistic base
- Painting Granite and Sandstone Rocks – Video Demo
- Painting the Desert Diorama for Star Wars Figures – Part 1 – Video Demo
- Painting the Desert Diorama for Star Wars Figures – Part 2 – Video Demo
- Ready made options – Coastal Kits bases
- Reality in Scale Landscape Mats – Video Demo
- Running stream effects base – 3 Video Demos
- Seascape for waterline ships
- Seascapes for 1:700 ships – Video Demo
Display Cases
Dry Brushing
- Dry-brushing with enamels – Video Demo
- Dry brushing with AMMO Dio Drybrush Paint (Acrylic paint) – Video Demo
- Round Drybrush from Model Craft – How to use it – Video Demo
Dust and mud
- Adding mud to your AFVs
- Dust and streaking with pigments – how to by Mig Jimenez – Video Demo
- Finishing off rubber-vinyl tyres – Video Demo
- Mud effect with plaster, how to by Mig Jimenez – Video Demo
- Mud with chipping effect – by Mig Jimenez – Video Demo
- Splash dry mud – by Mig Jimenez – Video Demo
- Ultimate Pigments – how to use them – Video Demo
- Weathering oil drums – 9 Video Demos
- Weathering wheels and tyres
- Winter camouflage effect – by Mig Jimenez – Video Demo
Exhausts
- Exhaust stacks (on WW2 aircraft) – 5 Video Demos
- How to create realistic aircraft exhaust staining
- How to create realistic exhaust stacks and staining – Hawker Hurricane – 4 Video Demos
- Metallic Effects on Exhaust outlets – Video Demo
- Ultimate Pigments – how to use them – Video Demo
Filters and washes
- Applying an oil wash over flat acrylic paint – Video Demo
- Armour Filters – Video Demo
- Armour Wash – 2 Video Demos
- Filters for washes
- Filters for aircraft
- Panel Line Washing With Lighter Colours
- Panel line washes with AMMO PLWs – 2 Video Demos
- Using AMMO Light Grey Filter in a cockpit – Video Demo
- Weathering washes, an introduction
Magnets
Pastels
- Post-shading panel lines with pastels – Video Demo
- Using pastels to weather paintwork (on military aircraft)
- Using pastels to apply German armour camouflage pattern – Video Demo
Photography
- Aircraft models displayed in flight
- Photographic Lighting set-up
- Photo setup with Gilles Pepin
- Really simple pictures using your phone (or tablet) – Part 1
- Scale Modelling Photography – Part 2
- Scale Modelling Photography Techniques – Part 3
- Taking Photos of Your Models
Safety
- Basic safety equipment – introduction – Video Demo
Varnishes
- How to spray Alclad2 clear varnishes onto water-based acrylic paint – 2 Video Demos
- How to spray Alclad2 clear varnishes onto Alclad2 Metallic Lacquers – 3 Video Demos
- How to Use Hard Rock Glossy Varnish – Video Demo
- Humbrol Acrylic Varnish, how to spray it and key points – 2 Video Demos
Weathering Aircraft
- SPECIAL: Shuichi Hayashi – stunning examples of weathering – 4 Video Demos
- AMMO Lock N Load Weathering Pencils – how to use – Video Demo
- Applying metal pigment with a Rubber Brush – with Mig Jimenez – Video Demo
- Bi-plane wings, highlighting ribs and shadows – 3 Video Demos
- Dirt, Grime and Streaking effects – 3 Video Demos
- Dry-brushing with enamels – Video Demo
- Dry brushing with AMMO Dio Drybrush Paint (Acrylic paint) – Video Demo
- Exhaust stacks (on WW2 aircraft) – 5 Video Demos
- Extreme weathering on aircraft – salt!
- Finishing off rubber-vinyl tyres – Video Demo
- Heavy scratches and chips using Frisk Artists’ Blue Mask – 3 Video Demos
- Highlighting panel lines
- How to paint and weather cockpits – 12 Video Demos
- How to use AMMO Oilbrushers – Video Demo
- How to use AMMO’s U-RUST Corrosion Creator Set – Video Demo
- Metallic Effects on Exhaust outlets – Video Demo
- Panel lines – Highlighting using a graphite pencil – Video Demo
- Post-shading panel lines with pastels – Video Demo
- Removing mould seam lines on rubber-vinyl tyres – Video Demo
- Salt Technique for heavy wear and tear
- Top Gun Special! Building Maverick’s F-14A Tomcat 1:48 – SPECIAL TECHNIQUES BUILD
- Ultimate Pigments – how to use them – Video Demo
- Undercarriage units
- Weathering wheels and tyres
- Weathering stages on a Luftwaffe WWII subject
Weathering Military Vehicles
- AMMO Lock N Load Weathering Pencils – how to use – Video Demo
- Applying metal pigment with a Rubber Brush – with Mig Jimenez – Video Demo
- Dirt, Grime and Streaking effects – 3 Video Demos
- Heavy scratches and chips using Frisk Artists’ Blue Mask – 3 Video Demos
- How to use AMMO Oilbrushers – Video Demo
- How to use AMMO pigments – Video Demo
- How to use AMMO Shaders – Video Demo
- How to use AMMO’s U-RUST Corrosion Creator Set – Video Demo
- How to make vertical water marks on your tank – Video Demo
- How to Paint Winter Camouflage – Video Demo
- KO Sherman rust, burnt effects
- Spilled fuel and oil stains, how to with Mig Jiménez – Video Demo
- Ultimate Pigments – how to use them – Video Demo
- Washes and Pigments on Rust with Mig Jimenez – Video Demo
- Weathering tracks
- Weathering tracks using Blacken-It – Video Demo
- Weathering with hairspray
Weathering Sc-Fi, Fantasy and similar models
Lots of the techniques used to weather aircraft and armour models will work really well on your Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Steampunk and other similar models and you will find links to these below…
- AMMO Lock N Load Weathering Pencils – how to use – Video Demo
- Applying metal pigment with a Rubber Brush – with Mig Jimenez – Video Demo
- Dirt, Grime and Streaking effects – Video Demo
- Dry-brushing with enamels – Video Demo
- Extreme weathering on aircraft – salt!
- Heavy scratches and chips using Frisk Artists’ Blue Mask – 3 Video Demos
- Highlighting panel lines
- How to paint and weather cockpits – 12 Video Demos
- How to use AMMO pigments – Video Demo
- How to use AMMO Shaders – Video Demo
- How to use AMMO’s U-RUST Corrosion Creator Set – Video Demo
- How To Use Aircraft and Spaceship Weathering Set – Video Demo
- How to make vertical water marks on your tank – Video Demo
- KO Sherman rust, burnt effects
- Panel lines – Highlighting using a graphite pencil – Video Demo
- Post-shading panel lines with pastels – Video Demo
- Salt Technique for heavy wear and tear
- Spilled fuel and oil stains, how to with Mig Jiménez – Video Demo
- Thunderbird 1 – Full build and weathering techniques
- Thunderbird 3 – Full build and weathering techniques
- Ultimate Pigments – how to use them – Video Demo
- Weathering with hairspray
- Weathering techniques for Star Wars Mos Eisley street scene – Video Demo
Weathering Locomotives
- AMMO Lock N Load Weathering Pencils – how to use – Video Demo
- Ultimate Pigments – how to use them – Video Demo
- Weathering a Loco…
Weathering Ships
- AMMO Lock N Load Weathering Pencils – how to use – Video Demo
- Creating a realistic looking wooden deck
- How to use AMMO’s U-RUST Corrosion Creator Set – Video Demo
- Ultimate Pigments – how to use them – Video Demo
OUT NOW: ‘An Initiation to Aircraft Weathering – Modelling School Series’
Written by Jamie Haggo and published by Ammo of Mig Jimenez.
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