| How to....
....Get the effect of salt/barnacle encrustations.
Hello,
As promised here's a quick demo of what i did to get the above effect.
The first pic shows what i used (Minus the oil paints, i forgot to put them in!!)
I used the bits of scourer to dab on the maskol, this was watered down by about 25% as this makes the blobs 'n' spots off the scourer smaller. I followed the weld seams and along the join line where the saddle tanks meet the hull and did a few random dabs here and there for effect.
Once the Maskol is dry you can start to apply the oil paint. I did this by stippling it on with a large round brush (Like you would with a stencil) moistened with white spirit. The effect was faded out towards the scum line, this was also done with oil paint after masking the waterline with Tamiya tape. The tape was removed once both sides were done, followed by a few passes over the whole length with my finger to eliminate the hard edge.
Tip, keep whats left of your Maskol mix and let it dry off in the container you used it from.
After a few days drying the now dry/set Maskol was peeled away from the container i used to mix it up in. This was rolled up into a lovely sticky ball, ideal for removing the maskol on your model!
Thats about it really, the colours i used were copied from photo's of dry docked ships and boats 'Googled' off the net. Hopefully the photo's will explain it better than i have here!?
Sav. |