Oils for rust and much more
It’s now time to apply the oils for representing dust, paint fading and streaks so a piece of cardboard was cut to make a pallet. The oils are squeezed out onto the card, about a large pea size and left so the linseed oil leaches out to leave the pigment. I try to lay out the colours from dark to light which helps when you come to use them.
I start with the dark colours first and apply very small spots on panel edges and spread the oils out (They will go a long way) to represent where dust forms and also for discolouration and the streaks associated with rain and wear. I tend to work on one area at a time moving on once I am satisfied with the layer of paint.
Once the first layer is done I move on to a lighter colour and repeat but try not to cover all of the first layer as you want this to give depth to the weathering stages. While the dust oil painting is being done I also drag some lines down the panels of various lengths.
This is done for all the panels of the vehicle building up the layers with the different colours and varying them to give added interest.
I now used some of the light colours to fade the panels by applying selected very small amounts of oils spread over the surface. Over this I then applied pigments with a brush and scrubbed this into the surface. This gives a decidedly dusty look and to add more depth oils were again applied over this and followed by more pigments. Remember when doing this a little goes a long way and its easy to overdo the effect.
More pigments were added to the tracks, wheels and the front and rear of the vehicle. On the lower front and rear the pigment was built up more on one side as well as the wheels to again give a different visual effect. The same was done for the side armour. Once this had been done the vehicle was beginning to look faded, worn and uncared for.