Advanced Tips: Chipping in 2 layers with brush and sponge
Carlos Mendes demonstrates the "2 layers chipping" technique, working on the Trumpeter Heuschrecke IVb model.
Carlos Mendes demonstrates the "2 layers chipping" technique, working on the Trumpeter Heuschrecke IVb model.
Winter washes (or winter camo) as well as the the weathering for the winter time, requires a specific approach. Carlos Costa and José Moral show us their way.
Great and only 6 minutes long video showing all the steps the Author did to represent this great burned and rusting tank.
Mig Jimenez demonstrates how to make very convincing streaking using enamel based products (you can buy them, or do your own).
The Jimenez's tractor is back: after the tutorial dedicated to the streaks, rust and chipping, today is the turn of dust, oil and earth.
Mig Jimenez show how to obtain convincing streaks, rust, and chipping on an old tractor. Remember that you can achive similar results with any similar products: enjoy His skill!
Acrylic washes are getting popular, but they must be used in a slightly different way compared to traditional enamel or oil washes, and in this video tutorial we see how.
Armors tracks aren't like jewelry: they get rusty very easily. And in this video tutorial we see how to reproduce this rusty look.
A very useful tutorial about painting and weathering tanks tracks with only a light weathering effect.
Simple but very effective mud effects are easy to create, and can really change the look of a model, as we can see in this video tutorial.
To recreate the classic winter camo of the armors, the best techniques are hairspray for the chippings and washable white paint for the main camo.
Metal pigments can improve the looks of many parts, like Wheels, Gun barrel, edges, etc... and this video shows the best way to apply them.
Four chipping techniques covered in one video - two of them including a really easy rusting technique!
Looking how to add grease or oil engine effects? Here in this video tutorial the suggestions of Mig Jimenez
If you are looking for a ultra-realistic way to depict rust and dust on the wheel of your warbird... this is the video to watch.
The weathering approach for a civilian car model is often slightly different from the one used for the armors, as we can see in this great video.
Enamels are a powerful tools for an effective weathering process, and this video in less than 5 minutes explain us how to recreate dust using them.
When wood comes in play on our models, to look real it needs to be weathered...
Filters and pin washes add subtle tonal variations to our models: you can buy them ready to use, or do them buy yourself, and oils are the perfect medium.
Time to talk about to mud and how to apply it to your model, watching this quick but very useful VIDEO Tutorial !
There are many methods to recreat rust spots, and perhaps the one with oil paints and white spirit is the one offering the best control...
This classic mothod to make chippings on the models is still a great one, if used properly how this Video tutorial shows.
Mig Jimenez has presented a new product: a washable white for winter camouflage that allow to achieve effects comparable to the hairspray, but different...
Wantining to improve your amors adding some nice mud splashes effect? This VIDEO Tutorial shows how.
Add streaking grime effect to your models, watching this amazing 3 parts video tutorial.
A convincing weathering should interest not just the paint on the model, but also the decals, and this VIDEO Tutorial shows us how to do it.
Did you ever consider to spray with the airbrush your weathering pigments? In this VIDEO Tutorial we will discover what we need to try it...
It is hard to catch the subtle tonal variations that Dunkelgelb shows in real life, but in this VIDEO Tutorial you see one of the methods that you can use.
Pin Wash on our plane's models it is not just to highlight panel lines, but also to produce subtle fading and streaking effects, as Bob show us on this great VIDEO Tutorial.
The sponge method can be a powerful method in the modeler's arsenal, to reproduce irregular chippings, and in this VIDEO Tutorial we can see how.
There are tons and tons of video-tutorials about scale models, dispersed on the Net. But only a few are truly worth to watch. We select the best and only the best video-tutorials: building, detailing, painting, weathering, dioramas and more. We just finished to tag all the videos in our archives, and the first results is here: a selection of tutorials about the weathering in scale models: all what you need to know to give to your models the perfect dirty or dusty or rusty look! |