I
wanted the chipping I was doing on my menite 'jacks to look a little
more pronounced and this seemed to be the best way to do that. I coated
the Talon first in a unidentified Vajello paint. I think it is something
like bestial brown or beast brown. I can't read the label anymore so I
have no idea what it is. Once I had a nice even coat of this I wanted to
already make a rust effect so that when the weathering began I would
have a nicely textured rust effect already done just waiting to be
revealed. I made a turpentine based wash for this. Using turpentine for a
wash is a massive departure from what I am used to but I have to say it
is really good, at least for rust effects. Turpentine will strip paint
from a model pretty easily so you have to be careful with what you are
doing.
I also didn't buy odourless turpentine... big mistake. Anyway the wash
can be quickly spread all over the model. Don't brush over areas you
have already coated as this will cause the paint to start to lift off. I
then left mine to dry, it doesn't take too long. I didn't measure out
the wash too perfectly and I was left with a thick residue underneath
the liquid. However this meant I got a good uneven coating of the
pigment something that adds very much to the natural look of the rust.
So
the next thing to do is to place salt where you want the rust to show
through. Now thats a lot easier said than done and it took some
experimentation to get everything going the way I wanted it to.
Basically you have to wet the area and then sprinkle the salt on. I
found that this left a very thin coating of salt that the paint could
soak through. I used rather fine salt and I have seen most other people
use coarser grains. However I noticed that if I coated a larger area and
then using my brush to apply a drop of water to this I could manipulate
the salt nicely and gather it together into some thick and well shapped
clumps. It took a lot longer for the salt to dry but it was worth it in
the end I think. You have to be careful where you place the salt so
that the weathering looks natural and I am really still learning this.
Its easy to see tanks and how they get worn. There are awesome guides
explaining how to use this technique.
However nobody has, that I have seen, done this for Warjacks before.
The technique has been used but never in a way I feel captures exactly
what has been done on some of those beautiful scale tanks. I definitely
won't manage it for a long time yet either! So with the salt dried,
which I left overnight, I then sprayed the model as gently as possible
with the basecoat. This is going to be a grey for my Mercenaries. I was
worried that the pressure of the airbrush might knock off the salt but
thankfully it didn't. I was able to coat the model easily without any
problems. The extra water on the salt gave it a good strong bond to the
model. It was pretty difficult to actually knock it off when I needed
to! I also tried to paint the model a little with the salt left on. The
spear I gave a rime of salt to and I painted the point of the spear in
silver to see if it would soak under the salt or just be a pain in
general to paint.
So here is what I have once the salt has been knocked off. I think the
effect is interesting but not as of yet perfect. Having now done this I
am left with a few problems. How can I justify such harsh rusted patches
and yet still have untarnished or not as tarnished metal elsewhere. I
have a few more tchniques that this 'jack is the test piece for but I
have to collect a few more materials to try them all out. I can at least
say that the salt weathering achieved exactly what I wanted it to. It
isn't perfect and I know what I will do better for next time.
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