Advanced Weathering

[GiJoe]

I have looked through the forums and found several good threads on weathering tools and equipment. Mainly using thinned paint "washes" or similar.

Thought i'd share a technique I learned from my Aunt. She has experience in small scale and detail items for the film industry.

I approached her to help me weather some skeletons I am using for a build.


I started with standard, run of the mill plastic skeletons from a party store.




Stage one of "weathering" my crew!

I began by adding a little meat to their bones. I used Spray Glue for this.

Sprayed from about 18" away to give some texture and a sinewy look. Then dumped all in a bucket of fireplace ashes.










Made a few "washes" of thinned black and red paints, then covered from head to toe. Trying to highlight muscle and tissue with more reds, joints and depressions with black. Left to dry overnight.









The next day, I made a Mud Bath from thinned, water based brown paint. To this, I added more ashes. Just enough to make a loose slurry.

Each skeleton was then dunked and left to dry. That's it! Easy and the results speak for themselves! The technique can easily be modified to suit whatever it is you want to appear "dirty" or "aged".

[old man 52]

That's a scary crew your hanging with Joe