Rusting, Chipping and Weatheringby: Todd Michalak

A beginners guide to basic rusting

Hello all, In an effort to simplify some techniques, I put together a small Step by Step (SBS) on rusting, chipping and weathering.

There are many techniques to attack painting, chipping and finally weathering different models to get the realistic feel weare looking for. We all learn these different techniques either from trial and error, reading articles and following buildsonline or if we are lucky enough, to have one or more of the so called "experts" show us some of the tricks.

Here is a "small" SBS on Painting, Rusting, Hair Spray/Chipping Fluids, Weathering in layers to help understand the useof some products and the applications of layers to help bring depth to a project. I am no expert by any means. I have onlypicked up some tricks here and there and want to help some who wants to learn the basics to rusting and weathering. So, ifyou wanted to try and rust an old model or tried and failed or just want to learn one more tool to help you get there, I hopethis will help some understand a few processes in making, painting and finally weathering.

With that, here we go!!

First we need to build something quick...............

The Kit:

The floor boards would be rotted out from sitting close to the ground, and using the picture as references for some otherdamages, I moved forward.

At the moment I am attaching some parts instead of breaking them. I added the section of the chassis to the floorboards.

I wanted to create the torn headliner that can be seen in one of the pictures. I cut apart a teabag and with a little PVAbegan gluing the headliner in place. Tea bags work great for this and even better for making tarps and blankets to addsome realism to your builds.

The Donkey...Lump...Motor, was next on the chopping block.

In an effort to speed this up, I cut out the intake manifold section, drilled out the cylinders added some small bobbles andthe motor was ready.

In the pictures there are a couple of distinct features I will try and duplicate somewhat. You can see the open driver's sidedoor with the hanging panel and the bars on the rear window.

The rear window bars.

Last, I began chopping away at the doors.

Finally, for the moment, the homemade steel framework that was added and then someone attached the rear axle to it. Alittle scratch work and everything is pretty much ready for some primer.

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