Rusting effect - Page 2

**Bunkerbarge** · 13-04-2006

Thanks Steve,

To get that effect I put a blob of each of the three paints on a pallette (lump of wood, saucer, next doors cat, anything I can find really) and take a bit of one of the colours and dry the brush out quite a bit. Then I drag it down the item in the direction the water would flow off the item.

Do a couple of strokes with a second differrent colour over the top then a few with the last one, then go back. The idea is not to mix the colours but to see each individual one plus all the shades of inbetween. Practise on whatever you can find until you are happy to have a go at the model. I actually have rather a lot of rust coloured bits of wood in my garage!

rjwood_uk · 13-04-2006

so what are the main areas on a boat/ship that rust the most/quickest richard?

for examply, my musashi, she only lived 5 years, would she have showed much signes of rusting in that time?

**Bunkerbarge** · 13-04-2006

Richard, I would suggest that that type of ship at that age and more importantly at that scale would show very little signs of rusting.

Warships are generally very well kept as there is an abundance of manpower on them so maintenance is usually well up to scratch. On your model I would not try to show any rust as the effect would almost certainly end up looking unrealistic and out of scale. Even things that would rust in service such as anchor cables, anchors and hawse pipes would be very quickly cleaned and painted so I would not suggest that you show them as rusted.

I put some rust on my destroyer as she was involved in a very lengthy North Atlantic campaign when maintenance would be very difficult if not impossible for some time and at 1/96th scale anything like that would be more visible.

magpie · 13-04-2006

I agree with Bunk and do much the same using acrylic paint. I have a ready mixed bottle of rust paint that is a made up from some primary colours to what I think looks rust like. I also dry brush inline with water flow after dabbing bits on places like hand rail bases etc, where rust would be. I then spray matt clear enamel over it to seal it. My u-boat has a fair bit as they did in most photos as the refits were very brief and rare due to heavy workload and short life expectancy I guess.
Here's a sample pic showing my efforts.
Jason