hi all, you've probably all seen it on the battlefield 2 mods and the like, but i really want to know how to do it. What im talking about is the sort of grubby or dirty/rusty paint effects that get made, the ones that make a case look like its spent a summer out in iraq or has been sitting in a murky cave for 10 years. that sort of thing I want to do a radioactive themed case, with the whole yellow/black radioactive sign and everything, i thought it would be a nice touch to make the sign all sort of chipped and scuffed as if its been used "in the field" so to speak. Any ideas how i would go about doing this, in all the mods i see tha tuse this they have small pots of what seems to be special paint, but nobody ever goes into any details about it, so i was just wondering what people use Oh and prefereably no airbrushing, that takes a lot of time and expertise cheers, draogn2309
Some of the simpler tricks are drybrushing and antiquing. Drybrushing enhances edges while antiquing fills cracks. to drybrush: use a large brush with very little paint. It's good practice to lightly dip the brush, then wipe most of it off on a piece of scrap. Lightly drag the brush over the work. For water stains drag the brush only downward, paying special attention to horizontal lines and outcrops. To Antique: Apply a VERY thinned out coat of dark paint, Then wipe it off gently. The trick is to do this without ruining the paint underneath. This part can only be done with an airbrush, but there's not much skill needed.
Ah ok, thanks, at least now i know the names of the techniques i can go and find out some more, anyone else got any input on this??? im sure some of the experienced modders have used it before? any tips, methods or anything?? dragon2039
for steel? I've found the most easiest and best looking is to just actually rust the metal and then coat it in urethane. In fact I did just that to about 100 sq sheet metal at my job today. rather simple water+ various acids and or catalysts, this can be as simple and cheap as table salt or muratic acid (pool/cement cleaner) then it's just a matter of waiting a day or two and painting on the urethane which will last quite some time. of course if you have an aluminum or plastic part, patining is not possible and you'll need to use a painting technique which I'm not familiar with
