how to do Rust weathering

you could get iron filings or steel wool shaving and grind it down and paint it on with a clear glue. but before you paint it on you have to make them rust...here is a recipe to make it rust

1 cup vinegar

1 cup hydrogen peroxide

1 teaspoon of salt

just put that on the iron filings or the steel wool and let it rust. then put on your desired parts

here is a paint finish as well...

you need to base coat it with a  black or dark grey with blue and white. THen mix raw sienna, venetian red and burnt umber and red iron oxide to make a reddy rust color. Stipple that over the part, but dont cover the whole grey....you could also add very fine sand to make it bumpy and have a texture.

Then In some places  stipple in a little of this combo here and there to give it more depth... , yellow ocher, yellow oxide and raw sienna. You could add sand to this as well or just add it into the base coat...

curtis remington wrote:

evan easyer use gunze syngo rust paint.

depends on the area i just use it for tracks (all kinds) and subtle rust on corners.

CATION:use sparingly unless it's a rusted out vehicle, to thin the paint use rubbing alchohol, this tip can also be used if the paint dries (this stuff acryl but not made like other paint).

There are several methods of applying rust weathering to a model.  The RustAll system works very well but is rather pricey (IMHO).  Pastels will give you absolutely great representations of rusted areas, but the first time you dust the model after it's built, will be lost.  And since a coat of clear painted over it will tone it down drasticly (would you believe disappear?), you have to learn how to "over weather" with the pastels to get the results you want.  And lastely, there are just plain old paints labeled "rust".  Again, there is a learning curve involved, as you are going to need to know how drybrush in order to get the subtle kind of rust patterns found on ships and boats.

Just remember that rust comes in many colors in nature - from almost orange in new rust, to a deep, almost chocolate brown in old rust.  You can either mix your own or get bottles of rust paint from several different manufactures.  I have bottles from Testors (the little square bottle), Testors MM, Humbrol and Testors MM Acrylics because each bottle has a different shade of paint to represent rust. Go out and look at a piece of equipment (car, truck etc) that has been rusting.  You're going to find rust in several different colors in different places on it. 

My suggestion would be to pick a system you want to try, play and practice with it on scrap or a "hulk" model until you are happy with the results and confident of using the technique and then apply it to your model.

I don't know how "crusty" of a rust you are lookin for, but this is the method I use for real chunky, scaly rust. ........ I used my dremel to thin out the part, and give it some "eaten away metal". I mixed up some dark rusty paint. I think I mixed MM rust with some flat black. I paint it on the part I want rusted, then I sprinkle on some flocking (used for simulating carpet). I let it dry for a couple of minutes then I blotch on some more rust paint. I let it dry, then give it a black wash. This is the result...  I thought it turned out kinda good....