] Hi all another update, if you will indulge me a bit also a little tutorial for my brother(who was asking about rust effects) Jim here's one its called the salt method, I realise you don't have an
airbrush (this is how its usually done) so as an experiment I did this with a brush, and I must say I'm very pleased with it.
First of all you paint your rust colour on the part.
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By the way you need course sea salt and normal dinner time salt(to give different textures (table salt is too uniform))
so you get some water on your brush and put it where you want your rust then sprinkle the salt on.
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allow the water to dry then apply your top colour (this is usually airbrushed on as the salt is very fragile and easily knocked off) but I found if you thin the paint to the same consistency you would to put it through an
airbrush and use the softest brush you have it can be brushed on.
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allow it to dry
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then brush it off
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I have an assortment of brushes which I didnt clean off properly so the pain has hardened the bristles and make them ideal for this task, the more rust you want to show the harder you scrub, this is not finished yet needs a few washes but need it to thourgly dry first the give it a coat of matt varnish so that if the washes dont look right I can get them off without ruining the effect I already have.
Here endeth Jims lesson.
Since I can find no definitive reference on the engine colour (every pic I've looked at it's been another shade of green) but since I'm using CAT's info for the body colour that is what I will be using for the engine colour. The last pic shows how big the engine is thats a 1/24 car .
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