weathering?

[rottie]

Ideas on this topic please

[topherhunter]

(Haven't done my TB yet, but this worked well on my TS.)

 

I started with grey, dark grey, black, and brown water-based paint and a sponge. Each color was daubed liberally onto the armor and allowed to dry. Then I used fine steel wool (snowies aren't shiny) and a very lightly damp paper towel to buff off the majority of the color. This left paint in the corners and light specks over the rest of the armor.

 

The main advantage of using water soluble paints is that you can undo it and you're guaranteed not to damage the ABS. The disadvantage is that I'll melt like the Wicked Witch if I get caught in a rain shower.

 

Cloth bits were weathered with a mixture of rooibos tea and random rubs in the mud and dirt outside.

[mr_hair]

Black spray paint, with a super fine nozzle cap. Very lightly sprayed from about a foot & a half away. I always give it a quick burst onto some card or something before each go on the armour, just to make sure there are no blobs of paint. It should be a fine mist. As is so often said, less is more!

 

[rottie]

very cool...keep them coming...i dont see a section on this and its good info

[4505Marcel]

Depends if you want to go screen accurate, or put some real thought into real world weathering.

 

My point being why would a scout on a forest moon be covered in black paint? That was just plain lazy and no thought from the prop department in my mind. I opted to go for greens and browns and a little black, which you would actually get going through trees ect. I sort if whipped it down the side of my armour and bucket to simulate branch whacks at speed.

 

There is clean and dirty scouts, so you do what you feel you like, but not too heavy. We are not sandies

[mr_hair]

I like to think the black is supposed to be carbon scoring, or oil & muck from working on the bikes

[Chef]

It's a funny topic this one...

 

And I'll say it now... LESS IS MORE!

 

Right, with that out of the way.

 

 

 

The scout weathering is actually pretty subtle, and whilst heavier than some might think it doesn't really appear to be heavy like the sandies.

I do think that some thought has gone in to it though. With the black spray being confined to the areas where oil and grease would accumulate from the bikes and stuff, on the front of the bund and pouches, the helmet and a few spots on the backplates and shoulders etc...

But there are also earthy tones on places such as the knees and boots, as you would expect.

 

If you look at the helmet, you'll see what I mean.

 

 

It's mainly oily splats and carbon scorning type weathering here.

 

But then look at the knee.

 

 

Definite browns and 'muck' type weathering here.

 

So I do think that it is a little more 'thought out' than would at first appear.

 

 

So like Marcel has said, try to consider what would occur in real life.

 

I flicked oil spots (from some old sump oil and a stiff brush) up the front of mine, and wore my boots whilst doing the gardening to get them with that natural green/brown staining.

Took some crushed up leaves and rubbed them in the creases of my arm and knee armour along with a ragging with a dirty cloth.

As well as a light spraying with the black spray paint.

 

In pictures, you'd think my armour is not weathered at all... but it's definitely there and looks pretty grubby in the flesh.

 

 

 

[Soundwave]

I ended up getting some grass and weathering my Boots, Knee pads and Lower arm armor this past weekend like I'd been crawling around for sniper purposes... I just can't think of a reason or way to weather the T Bit sections, and chest...

[Soundwave]

Luckily, I remembered that my tattoo artist is also very good with spray paint art, so he's supposed to help me out with some paint "weathering" for the suit.

 

Does anyone else have any ideas/input (JOHNNY 5 NEED INPUT) on this topic?

 

Thanks!

[Soundwave]

http://instagram.com/p/meTwpTMiC2/

 

 

...Seeking more opinions.... Maybe showing off my mad skills a little...

 

 

If you have feedback, please feel free to throw it my way...Please? And Thanks.

 

[PLEASE IGNORE THE LINK BELOW THIS LINE. I CAN NOT GET IT TO DELETE, AND THE ATTACHMENT DID NOT WORK. THANKS]

Weathering.htm

[EnigmaEngine]

Unfortunately the top link is borked too. Slap the pics on imgur/photobucket?

[Soundwave]

D'oh! Stupid links not working.

 

Let me see if I can find my log in for ze fotobuckest

 

Edit : Signed up for new account. Ain't nobody got time to recover password and all tnat mess. I gots Ewoks to locate and catch!

[Soundwave]

I'm planning on adding a bit more when I can locate more supplies to rough up.

[batninja]

Or you could go the OTHER direction and polish your armor to a high shine, like these 'dodgers:

 

[Soundwave]

I wasn't expecting a visit from The Emperor... And.... I think I'd rather look like I've been doing my job when he shows up rather than slaving over polishing up my armor, and getting everything from Watto's Galactic Dry Cleaners.

 

I mean, they didn't provide me with any of this... I had to buy my dang holster, too... And that's not even a tax write off, either.

[kelt_knight]

Here are some pics. A little goes a long way. You do not want to over do it. I will be doing my weathering like this. You want your armor and weathering to almost tell a history. I took a class at art school when getting my masters in Interactive Design and Game Development on weathering of cloths and armor for movies. Think that class is going to really help out a lot.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8yyc7x-QEY8cjBZWnhvSjBKTTg/edit?usp=sharing

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8yyc7x-QEY8akZ3a3l4am5mR2c/edit?usp=sharing

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8yyc7x-QEY8QXhLVlN6RU5RR3c/edit?usp=sharing

[Soundwave]

there is a lot of this topic over on the "It's critique time" thread, if that helps.