Jryan if yo want to know how to weather like a piece of armor go over into the Armor forums, and do a bit of browsing thriugh the posts--you'll learn a lot.
That was my Nomad artcle in the 11/08 issue, by the way. I thought the write-up was pretty complete? If you read through it, you should be able to follow through it, step-by-step, and get similar results?