With Adam Brown and Geoff Coughlin
5 HD VIDEO DEMOS
Before getting started
The first thing I would recommend, as with so many other weathering thoughts is check out your references – search the internet and any books that you may have to see what your subject actually looked or looks like – at the time you are trying to represent your model.
This all assumes that you want to add some realistic weathering to the exhaust stubs on your model and that’s our starting point with this sequence of videos and still photos that shows how you create some very realistic effects on your model.
Target model: Eduard Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX, 1:48 scale (a brilliant kit by the way!)
What you’ll need – tools and materials:
- kit parts – exhaust stubs
- base colour paint – that’s a good match or start point for your subject, easier if you have colour pics or of preserved types. In this case Lifecolor Burned Rust (UA 907), a water-based acrylic paint ideal for hand brushing (or spraying)
- paint brush to apply your base colour
- hair dryer to speed things up (to reduce drying time between steps)
- pigment – Lifecolor Eroded Burnt Rust
- white weathering pigment – AMMO or another brand (Adam is using Humbrol white pigment in his demo)
- AMMO of Mig Jimenez Black Pigment (to add depth to holes in exhaust pipes and add staining around same)
- stubby old paintbrush for applying pigment
- AMMO of Mig J’s Odourless thinners (for mixing with your black pigment)
- ‘silver’ pencil (to add subtle metallic effects to the weld seams and edges of exhaust pipe outlet)
On with the technique
The first step is to paint your chosen base colour onto your exhaust stacks.
VIDEO 1
Use a hair dryer to speed up drying time – just a minute or so and you’re good to go on. Or, leave the parts for an hour or two to harden off.
Burned Rust base colour painted on first…
VIDEO 2
Rust colour pigment next…
VIDEO 3
White pigment next… Adam is using Humbrol although AMMO also do white pigment as do other manufacturers like True Earth
VIDEO 4
Black pigment next…
VIDEO 5
‘Silver’ pencil next…
The finished exhaust stacks…
Here’s a reference pic just to give you an idea of the effects that can be seen on WW2 fighters and other aircraft…
Photo: Hawker Hurricane exhaust stacks – this aircraft belongs to the RAF’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and is much cleaner than a wartime operational Hurricane would have looked. The colouring though is clear to see and also note that the effects vary widely between specific aircraft.