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| Subject: | Re: "Salt" weathering technique?? |  |
| Date: | Jun 16, 2005 |
| From: | Doug Chaltry | |
Guy,
The salt technique was developed a couple of years ago by a friend of mine named Mike Chorney. He and a couple other fellows published a description of it in an issue of Fine Scale Modeler, which unfortunately, I don't have here at the office with me. I shot off an email to him, so hopefully he'll anwser me today, and I'll be able to let you know the issue number. Otherwise, I'll try to remember to get it tonight at home.
The technique is basically this:
Paint the model your base coat, either a primer color, or a base color if you are doing camouflage.
When dry, you spritz the model with some water from a mister, so that it is damp, but not soaked. With a wet paintbrush, pick up grains of salt (the finer grain of salt the better - popcorn salt is a good choice) with the brush, and dab them on the model in the spots where you want the top coat of paint to be chipped or scuffed.
Let the water dry. Some of the salt may have partially desolved, which is OK, but the intention is to leave most of the salt grains mostly intact.
Paint the top coat of paint, and let that dry as well. When it is dry, with a soft towel or brush (or cotton nub) rub off the salt, which will also take off the paint that's on top of it.
I know there are several models exhibited in various galleries on the web, perhaps even here at Track-Link, which exhibit this technique (which was originally developed for airplanes), but the only ones I can quickly point to are some small scale tanks at On The Way:
http://www.ontheway.us/gallery8/SBrezinskiT-54.htm
http://www.ontheway.us/gallery8/SBrezinskiEnigma.htm
http://www.ontheway.us/gallery8/SBrezinskiTiran5.htm
Again, I'll try to remember to post the issue number of the magazine when I get it. Mike's description is much more clear than mine.
-Doug |
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