Good morning, I have just come across your channel and enjoyec the tutorial on fixing pigments, it is a bit late for my current build but will give it a shot on my next build, thanks for sharing your ideas, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia, Les
G'day Les. Thank you for commenting. Yes, have a go at using dry pigments in your weathering. Take your time. The best piece of advice I can offer is go slow... less is more to start with. you can always add more but it's annoying to try and take them away. Have fun with it and I'm sure the results will come in time. Good luck and welcome to the channel.
Thanks again Craig. Yes, give it a go sometime. You can produce results ranging from light dust to full blown mud caked on like the vehicle has been swimming in a mud pool. The choice is entirely yours.
Hi Stewart! This was a great tutorial, and I thoroughly enjoyed watching the way you explained your methodology at each step, and then the final result. I am lacking in skills and confidence in the weathering process, but I like this approach, and I am definitely going to try this technique on my next build (but I think I should try it on my ‘mule’ first- a poor old Tiger that has suffered at my hands for a couple of years now). Many thanks for the upload mate, and cheers from a dry, but cold NSW!
Hi Gary, confidence comes with experience mate, and the best way to solve that is exactly what you said. Use a mule to practice on. Using an old Tiger model is perfect. Take your time with it, experiment and see what's effects you can get. The only thing that matters is that you think about how dust and mud would be thrown up by the tracks/wheels and then it's just common sense after that. Good luck
Picked up several useful things from this. Also prefer the no-nonsense, informative style, rather than the more 'entertaining', celebrity style RUclips video.
Thank you Simon. When it comes to tutorial work I much prefer to keep it simple and let the work speak for itself. Adding anything else to the video just has the potential to make it far too overwhelming for the viewer. I know when I watch a video on a new technique that I want as little distraction as possible. Thanks for reaching out mate.
Hi Joshua and welcome mate. First of all I'm going to assume you aren't using Mission Models Paints because alcohol breaks them down faster than you can blink. So most other acrylics will cope with alcohol based thinners. If you've been making your own brew at home, and you've had success in using it as your thinner, then use it as the fixer for your dry pigments as well. The only issue I could see is not with the dry pigments, but with what you are sticking them to. For instance, if you are weathering Tamiya vinyl tank tracks .... enamels and alcohol based thinners can make the vinyl material those tracks are made from, brittle over time. Enamels more so than alcohol based thinners. Just something to be wary of. Like I say to others, try a test mule first and get some practice on that using what you are comfortable with. Not only can you get some practice in building effects and understanding what you can do, but you'll gain confidence in knowing your chemicals are not damaging your models or the paints. Good luck
Great idaes,but the weathering with the pigments is overdone!Most people forget the selfcleaning abilities of a vic in combat!I have been in a Leopard Tank Platoon and wherever we drove,our tank was never THAT dirty even if you drove through hip deep thick mud!And especially through using the vic it cleaned itself to a certain degree!this tank looks like it was standing beside a mudhole for years and vics drove through this mudhole 10 times a day splattering the dirt on it,but not like a vic in use!
Hi Willi, Thanks for your feedback. I'll start with saying that I have been an armoured crewman in my earlier life. I have seen many examples of heavy mud weathering on M113's and Leopard 1 in service here in Australia. I also have photo's of numerous examples of armoured vehicles with very heavy mud layering that matches exactly what I have shown here in this tutorial. That said, the purpose of a tutorial is not to produce a perfect replica of what is commonly found. It is to teach method and purpose. Using the method I have demonstrated I could produce any effect ranging from light dust all the way to a heavy mud coating. You can stop that process at anytime to show dust, dirt or mud build up as you desire. I'm not suggesting everyone copy the final result I achieved here in this video. It's showing how far you can push these products to achieve whatever result YOU desire. If you'd like to see the references I'm talking about, please contact me via my email address at blackhatscalemodels@gmail.com and I'd be very happy to share them with you. Take care, regards Stewart
This was a great, how-to tutorial video on pigments, Stewart. I really enjoyed it 👍😎
Cheers Rob. Thank you of the positive feedback and I'm glad you liked the tutorial mate.
Good morning, I have just come across your channel and enjoyec the tutorial on fixing pigments, it is a bit late for my current build but will give it a shot on my next build, thanks for sharing your ideas, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia, Les
G'day Les. Thank you for commenting. Yes, have a go at using dry pigments in your weathering. Take your time. The best piece of advice I can offer is go slow... less is more to start with. you can always add more but it's annoying to try and take them away. Have fun with it and I'm sure the results will come in time. Good luck and welcome to the channel.
Fantastic tutorial Stewart, I might have to try this method sometime 😊
Thanks again Craig. Yes, give it a go sometime. You can produce results ranging from light dust to full blown mud caked on like the vehicle has been swimming in a mud pool. The choice is entirely yours.
Omg this technique looks realistic! Im gonna try this! Thanks for a great video!
Glad you like it!
This video was suggested in my feed. Excellent tutorial! I do agree with you about the power of pigments. I subscribed. Greetings from Italy!
Hello and welcome. Thank you for subscribing. Great to see you here and I hope you enjoy my channel.
Hi Stewart! This was a great tutorial, and I thoroughly enjoyed watching the way you explained your methodology at each step, and then the final result. I am lacking in skills and confidence in the weathering process, but I like this approach, and I am definitely going to try this technique on my next build (but I think I should try it on my ‘mule’ first- a poor old Tiger that has suffered at my hands for a couple of years now). Many thanks for the upload mate, and cheers from a dry, but cold NSW!
Hi Gary, confidence comes with experience mate, and the best way to solve that is exactly what you said. Use a mule to practice on. Using an old Tiger model is perfect. Take your time with it, experiment and see what's effects you can get. The only thing that matters is that you think about how dust and mud would be thrown up by the tracks/wheels and then it's just common sense after that. Good luck
Picked up several useful things from this. Also prefer the no-nonsense, informative style, rather than the more 'entertaining', celebrity style RUclips video.
Thank you Simon. When it comes to tutorial work I much prefer to keep it simple and let the work speak for itself. Adding anything else to the video just has the potential to make it far too overwhelming for the viewer. I know when I watch a video on a new technique that I want as little distraction as possible. Thanks for reaching out mate.
Coach would be proud! Good work.
thanks for the positive feedback. Coach is a man of few words but he may be watching haha
Rinaldi would be proud of that work.
lol.... thanks. I wonder if he's secretly watching
So if I paint with acrylics and often thin with a home brew thinner that is mostly alcohol, what would I use as a fixer?
Hi Joshua and welcome mate.
First of all I'm going to assume you aren't using Mission Models Paints because alcohol breaks them down faster than you can blink. So most other acrylics will cope with alcohol based thinners. If you've been making your own brew at home, and you've had success in using it as your thinner, then use it as the fixer for your dry pigments as well.
The only issue I could see is not with the dry pigments, but with what you are sticking them to. For instance, if you are weathering Tamiya vinyl tank tracks .... enamels and alcohol based thinners can make the vinyl material those tracks are made from, brittle over time. Enamels more so than alcohol based thinners. Just something to be wary of.
Like I say to others, try a test mule first and get some practice on that using what you are comfortable with. Not only can you get some practice in building effects and understanding what you can do, but you'll gain confidence in knowing your chemicals are not damaging your models or the paints. Good luck
Great idaes,but the weathering with the pigments is overdone!Most people forget the selfcleaning abilities of a vic in combat!I have been in a Leopard Tank Platoon and wherever we drove,our tank was never THAT dirty even if you drove through hip deep thick mud!And especially through using the vic it cleaned itself to a certain degree!this tank looks like it was standing beside a mudhole for years and vics drove through this mudhole 10 times a day splattering the dirt on it,but not like a vic in use!
Hi Willi,
Thanks for your feedback. I'll start with saying that I have been an armoured crewman in my earlier life. I have seen many examples of heavy mud weathering on M113's and Leopard 1 in service here in Australia. I also have photo's of numerous examples of armoured vehicles with very heavy mud layering that matches exactly what I have shown here in this tutorial.
That said, the purpose of a tutorial is not to produce a perfect replica of what is commonly found. It is to teach method and purpose. Using the method I have demonstrated I could produce any effect ranging from light dust all the way to a heavy mud coating. You can stop that process at anytime to show dust, dirt or mud build up as you desire. I'm not suggesting everyone copy the final result I achieved here in this video. It's showing how far you can push these products to achieve whatever result YOU desire.
If you'd like to see the references I'm talking about, please contact me via my email address at blackhatscalemodels@gmail.com and I'd be very happy to share them with you.
Take care, regards Stewart