New video: The easy way to paint a rust effect on scale models

This week is a follow up to last week - today it's all about the easiest way to paint rusted metal. Honestly, it's almost impossible to stuff this up. Plus it's another one of those fun, random, not-quite-sure-how-it-will-look-until-its-completed processes that I love so much.

It's incredibly simple.

1. Paint something with random splotches of Tamiya Red Brown XF-64.
2. Then splatter on speckles of other shades of reddish, orangey, brownish tones.
3. Then judiciously apply rust pigments.

Voila! You now have a piece of rusty metal.

There's really not a lot more to it than that - yes, there's room to finesse it, and of course feel free to play around with the technique, but it's pretty hard to mess it up. I love a process that can't go wrong!

Video is embedded below, but in case that doesn't work here is the link:
The easy way to paint a rust effect on scale models.

Cheers,

Dave

New video: How to paint a weathered galvanized metal effect for scale models

I received a few queries last week, asking me how I had painted the roofing in my corrugated iron video. So I'm releasing two videos in response - one showing how to paint a weathered, galvanized natural metal finish (this week) and next week I'll be showing you the easiest method ever for painting rusted metal.

For a galvanized metal finish, all you need is:

• a dark metallic paint
• a light metallic paint
• a light grey paint
• salt

That's it. Easy-peasey.

I'll let the video do the talking, but I think it gives a suitably realistic and weathered finish. The spots of darker metal could be slightly smaller to be more in scale, but I can live with it.

Video is embedded below, but in case that doesn't work here is the link:
How to paint a galvanized metal effect for scale models

Cheers,

Dave