Price: £3.99 per 28ml bottle (Nov 2012)
Review by: Geoff Coughlin
Our thanks to Humbrol for providing our review samples. Get these useful weathering powders here now at www.humbrol.com
Introduction
It seems like everyone is at it – creating and making their own versions and varieties of weathering agents, pigments and powders. If you check out your Here Now ‘Tools’ area you’ll find other products and there will be more as the months go on and we review new products. MDP, Mig, AK Interactive are all well-established names in this field so Humbrol will have to go some to compete with these manufacturers, but they have made an impressive start with the first batch of weathering powders that have arrived in the office. They are already plugged in for use on some of our forthcoming projects so you’ll be able to read about them in the weeks and months ahead.
Recently we’ve reviewed the new range of acrylic paints just out from Humbrol and good they are too, so check elsewhere under your Humbrol link to find all the other items in their growing range.
Humbrol Weathering Powders
Humbrol has produced a couple of good introductory videos and they can be found from your link below, so I’m not going to repeat much of what’s covered there. Suffice to say that the powders are intended to be used with Humbrol Thinner and Mattcote. The pigments are applied to a mixture of wet and dry surfaces depending on what stage and effect you are after.
The pigment used looks to be quite good quality and mixes in well and by combining various of the colours / powders an almost infinite number of tones and effects can easily be created.
Given the first colours and tones released they are clearly good for the range of ‘Afghanistan Operation Herrick’ 1:48 scale armour models being released by Airfix and reviewed in the Airfix Here Now area.
Here are the colours now available at the time of going to press:
- AV0001 Black
- AV0002 White
- AV0003 Sand
- AV0004 Smoke
- AV0005 Chrome Oxide
- AV0006 Iron Oxide
- AV0007 Dark Earth
- AV0008 Rust
Check this out for an introduction to and demonstration of how to use Humbrol Weathering Powders…
http://www.humbrol.com/humbrol-weathering-powders/
Further Information (pdf downloads)
How To Use – Weathering Powder
To sum up
It’s good to see Humbrol rejuvenating their range of tools and materials and they have made an impressive start. These weathering powders look good at first glance and will undoubtedly help modellers create realistic effects on any of their models, whatever their type; multiple uses and at an affordable price, can’t be bad!
Recommended and looking forward to Humbrol expanding their range further.
Geoff C.
PS – Humbrol have their own YouTube channel and you can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/humbrol