Thanks everyone for the compliments!
MilesWestern said:
I Really admire your weathering technique! Devulge your secrets, the cars are amazing! The Rust intrigues me...how DID you do it?
I use several different methods when I am adding rust. The easiest is to dry brush a rust color such as Americana Burnt Sienna or Folk Art Burnt Sienna onto the car.
I also use rubbing alcohol. I dip the brush in the rubbing alcohol and then the rust colored paint. I get very little paint on the brush. You want it dry as can be. I then brush the spot I want. When I seal the car with Dullcoat the alcohol will react with the Dullcoat and give the rust a whitish tone.
The last method which I used on the B&O double door car is much longer and I use for old rust. I start with light colored paint such as burnt sienna. I brush the paint on the car where I want it. I wait a few moments and then with my finger or a paper towel I wipe the paint with a down stroke. Let dry. I then do the same with the next color which might be Folk Art Red Oxide. This time the area covered is smaller. I continue doing this with various colors getting darker each time. I will use Folk Art Real Brown, Maple Syrup, Huckleberry. You have to experiment with this method to see which colors work. This method was demonstrated by Jim Six and he does it a hundred times better than I can.
BTW, I plan on doing a how to weathering post shortly once I start another weathering project.
