Weathering with Watercolors
In this post I will discuss my most recent weathering experiment: Watercolors I'm always looking for new and inexpensive ways to weather my armor models, and when I remembered that I had some cheap ($5) watercolors from Target lying around in a closet, I knew that I had to try them. I mostly used the black and brown colors, but I also used some red (more on this later). Above is a some accidental weathering on the weld lines of the hull of my work-in-progress, the 2s1 Gvozdika by Trumpeter. I started here with putting some water on a paintbrush and swilling the brush around in the brown color section. During this process I learned that to achieve nice clean lines that stayed close to the weld detail, only a little bit of paint is wanted on the very tip of the brush. The brown was used as a base color and painted over the weld lines and onto the surrounding area. This was followed by the black, which was used as more of a highlight, ideally being just on the weld line