"Graphite Pencil"

yep, that's what it is. I also use it to 'paint' the tow cables, machine gun barrels and to give the effect of worn paint on sharp edges (aluminium paint is way too obvious!)

I use graphite for just about all metal surfaces. I scrape it into a powder with a hobby knife and usually apply it with my finger. Gives a very realistic metalic sheen.

Matt

Can I see some pics of how the effects look, please?

I've got some graphite powder lying around somewhere I should try.. Its the dry lubricant stuff..

on the pics.
djmodels1999, what kind of a pencil do you use? Just regular HB or something else. They vary in shades, so I was just curious as to which is better?
Can you use this to simulate chipped paint? I've heard a lot about this, but haven't tried it yet...

Zoki-HB is medium,2B 3B etc. are softer while 2H, 4H are much harder and don't give up their graphite easily. By the way, pencils used to be lead long ago but are graphite now. The lead poisoning scare from chewing on pencils was from certain paints used in my hazardous childhood.

I just got a graphite pencil a few days ago (as recommended by Domi) from an art store (5B I think?) and used in on my recent Sherman build. It's hard to tell in the pics, but any of the various 'corners' and hinges here have graphite on them (anything 'shiny' is likely graphite pencil). It looks very good in person, but hard to capture on the camera...

It only cost a couple of bucks, so I'd recommend getting one and trying it out. I expect you'll be pleased...

Murray

I've used a couple of different methods now with graphite. For a number of years, I used a mechanical drafting pencil lead and because I had the sharpener for it, I have an easy way to produce the lead shavings.
Recently I picked up a small tube of powdered graphite from a locksmith shop and gave it a try with much the same end results.

Tiking - here's a pic of my mine roller that has been weathered with graphite.



The graphite really gives a "heavy metal" look to the finish IMO.

I use dry lubricant graphite from a tube. I got it at my LHS in the pine wood car section. Makes a pine car really haul and looks very realistic on armor models.