Breaking out a Trumpeter KV-2 tonight. Kit seems well thought of. Anyway, there are a lot of photo builds, one on our site from 2006 by a gent named Carves. /forums/p/59946/605095.aspx#605095 . He got a very interesting rusty effect that permeated the entire finish. Here is one of the photos:
Someone asked him about the effect and below is the explanation:
Karl, no problem. You need to do some steps to get that way thou;
- Spray the base color with gun metal color (Tamiya TS-38). Wait till dry.
- Spray clear flat to seal the color. Wait until REALLY DRY.
- Spray your basic tank color. For my tank, I srayed Olive Green (Tamiya
AS-14). Yes I know they are for aircraft, but hey, it works !
- Prepare you thinner, brown color/rush, next to you and brush. The brown I use is Tamiya XF-10 Flat Brown.
- Wet your brush with the thinner first, then dip into the brown. Do a
paint test first in the tank surface, if the brown is to strong, add
thinner into it then brush away.
- Once your thinned down brown is dry, it will create that effect.
Technically, your thinner use with the brown should slightly thinned
down the unprotected green you sprayed earlier, thus, blending them
together and at the same time brought out the gun metal color to the
surface.
So what you got in the end is a blending of 3 colors which create the effect.
The rest of the details are womens eye shadow powder and good old pencils.
Good luck and Have fun !
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Ben
OK, think I follow everything except for one wrinkle and it could be a big wrinkle. Judging from the description I would guess that this kit does not get a pledge/clear coat before this stage and that the "thinner" he refers to is acrylic. This is different than most sequences where you'd have the acrylics sealed and then use some kind of mineral spirits or turpenoid for weathering. But as I understand it, the reason you switch mediums (from acrylic to mineral spirits or vice versa if the tank was painted in enamel - this is all done in Tamiya acrylics) is to protect the underlying coat. Looks to me like the purpose here is to attack it. Do I have this right? And if I do, are there dragons lurking? Anyone tried this?
Eric