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Posted: Saturday, October 01, 2005 - 06:41 PM UTC
Too "salty!". Not good for health. :-) Anyway, as I said, it was an experiment. Never tried it since.
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Posted: Saturday, October 01, 2005 - 06:55 PM UTC
I think it looks great! A really beaten fighter plane.

What salt did you use? Normal table salt?

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Posted: Saturday, October 01, 2005 - 08:02 PM UTC
cool technique...salt eh? y not try sugar? :-)
haha...nxt thing u know the airplane got 'passengers' already...
actually theres a lot of ways to weather the models...its what u tink is best...
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Posted: Saturday, October 01, 2005 - 10:33 PM UTC

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I think it looks great! A really beaten fighter plane.

What salt did you use? Normal table salt?



Yup. Just normal table salt. 'Pagoda' brand! :-)
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Posted: Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 01:57 AM UTC
I think it looks good. The place that you have made a big patch of paint peel is the location where it is stepped on - by the pilot or the maintanence crew - all the time, so a big area of paint peel is not uncommon. Coupled with the very corrosive sea environment. Its realistic. I think its a good job. You should try more and I'm sure one day you will achieve the effect you want
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Posted: Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 02:25 AM UTC
Yup. I added more salt ard the area u mentioned due to heavy movement by the pilots & crew. I think mainly IJN planes have the worst paint peel. Probably that time they haven't invented Nippon paint yet. :-)
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Posted: Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 02:34 AM UTC
Hey Psyfool... may I ask.. how did you make the chipping off the decals??
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Posted: Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 03:41 AM UTC

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Hey Psyfool... may I ask.. how did you make the chipping off the decals??


I literally scratched and chip the decals with a pen knife. But have to be careful not to over-do coz it can't be undone!
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Posted: Monday, October 03, 2005 - 01:38 AM UTC
I think i ll try this too someday. With a MBT maybe
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Posted: Monday, October 03, 2005 - 06:29 AM UTC
Ive seen the salt technique used quite effectively on MBTs. For those of you that were either in the armor division or in the combat engineer division, alot of the vehicles rusted / chipped near the corners of vehicles so aligning the salt during constructions around the edges would certainly mimic reality really well.

I personally havent used this technique as i still have a soft spot for "slightly" cleaner vehicles with dust and mud being the extent of my weathering demands.
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Posted: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 01:47 PM UTC
There's another technique to make chip paints using masking tape... check out this link..

http://www.scaleworkshop.com/a6m5bc_1.htm
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Posted: Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 10:05 AM UTC

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There's another technique to make chip paints using masking tape... check out this link..

http://www.scaleworkshop.com/a6m5bc_1.htm


ah yes ive seen that one. Ive seen actual photos of this plan and i have to say the paint they used must have been crap as half the paint on each wing started chipping off big time.
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Posted: Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 10:34 AM UTC
U like clean model Jazza? Yeah my first IFV was clean too. But when i started making German tanks, i think i started to get itchy fingers and add weathering. I think my first attempt on a Panther was ok till i start weathering my Tiger, its got such a hoo hah with the Europeans cos they think my tanks have loads of rust. :-)
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Posted: Monday, October 10, 2005 - 07:17 AM UTC

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U like clean model Jazza? Yeah my first IFV was clean too. But when i started making German tanks, i think i started to get itchy fingers and add weathering. I think my first attempt on a Panther was ok till i start weathering my Tiger, its got such a hoo hah with the Europeans cos they think my tanks have loads of rust. :-)


I used to like it clean as you should be able to tell my the collection of photos in my album. My first Sherman tank had to be clean all round...not a spec of dust. Since then though, all my tanks have been rolling around in the mud.
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