[FONT="]I just mixed 91%IPA (rubbing alcohol) with Bragdon light rust and dead on same effect. You can use 70% IPA too they are both commonly available off the counter. Now I have multiple bottles of different weathering solutions. The consistency is also similar. It is a nobrainer so I wont bother posting pictures… Kim [/FONT]
Neat. I tried it using the Bragdon Powders. Another thing of interest is that you can use different shades and colors of powder, and not necessarily just rust and get excellent results. I seem to have MUCH better results using the alcohol instead of just the dry powder. The liquid flows much more realistically than I can do with the dry powder. I use the alcohol to dilute a lot of my acrylic painting and pour the leftover into a small bottle. The crud settles to the bottom and when painted on with fresh powder looks pretty realistic. Thank you for the idea(s) Rob & Kim...don
this is how my weathered cars look like: (ps: Jürg, thanks again for this wery, wery nice precent:teeth: )
And buildings? OK, no rolling stock this time, but buildings: and This is a resin kit by the Dutch firm Artitec. You have to paint the building. I weathered it with pastels: white to get a dusty image and to represent the (non-existing) cement between the bricks, and various shades of brown for the dirt. On the roof I also put some Woodland green stuff.
I like that Artitech building Thieu! Your weathering looks great! I have been looking at their buildings, and I think I want to order me one of those wherehouse buildings.
Opened my first Aritec stuff a year or so ago and was disappointed that is was all white, warped and had some much over casting residue that I just put it back in the box. Now I have hope ! Those look like really rustic buildings. You guys keep making me work more (but it's fun
Just checked out the Artitech site. Nice stuff. Reading the instuctions page shows it is a little work to assemble and paint. Nice though, too bad no North American distributor.
I know what you mean: my first kits were N scale, and the walls were warped, they were thick at left and thin at right, and it just didn't fit! I hated these kits! But since Artitec is the only firm that makes real Dutch buildings in N scale, I had little choice. That's why I was so surprised to see that this kit was very good: walls straight, thickness of the walls was OK, and therefore easy to assemble. I hope that Artitec (http://www.artitec.nl/) has improved its production process, and I think they did as you see the nice rolling stock they produce these days. And I know that it must be possible to release good resin kits, for the Dutch firm http://www.tillymodels.nl/ makes very good ones. And I discovered that it is not necesary to use super glue: I used standard glue (the -almost eatable- one your children use at school) and that worked fine!
Reynaulds has them in Canada (N. America): http://www.reynaulds.com/artitec/a_z_scale.asp?item=lngNumericSort The close up pix on their website look like they have made improvements.
