Peterbilt 359

Look forward to more WIP posts - as usual your skills are top notch. Beautiful dirty work on the engine!

Mike

Lovely work on the engine. What products or techniques do you use to do the weathering?

Thanks!

i don't use any fancy products lol, I do my main color and clearcoat it with duplicolor auto clear to seal it.

for the chipping I mix black and brown craft paint and just dab in on pretty much covering the whole thing.

then I use a damp q-tip and go about removing the craft paint in a random fashion to make all my chipping, I do go in and outline a few of the larger chips with a lighter shade of the base color.

then I clearcoat it again, (all gloss automotive clear btw)

 next I do my oil weathering to make dusty and grimy areas and shadows, I don't thin them just use them out of the tube, apply some in the areas and then blend out with a soft brush, I also remove some of it with a q-tip to vary the color then again I clearcoat it, i don't even wait for the oil to dry.

then I use white artist oil and drybrush everything very lightly with it, then I clearcoat it, this time with a dullcote

last thing I do is go in with black artist oil mixed to a thin wash and apply with a pointy thin brush to bring out other details. 

Thank you very much for the detailed approach. Something I will definitely try in the future.

Stellar work.

got some paint on the interior, nothing to fancy as its not all the visible in the finished model

Nuthin' wrong with that.