KITBASH & WEATHER A BUILDING
TERMS USED IN THIS ARTICLE
DRYBRUSHING: Using a flat brush, dip it sparingly into the paint & wipe it off on a paper towel until there is hardly any left on the brush. Drag the brush over the surface of your model but don’t paint it. The residue on your brush will contact the raised part of the kit leaving a lighter color thus highlighting those details. Always use a lighter shade when dry brushing to allow for the contrast.
WASHING: Mix your paint with a generous amount of thinner to make a more liquid than paint slurry then paint it on your model. Wipe off the excess.
DOT FILTERING: Technique is described in the Kitbash Part 2 article.
HINT: Practice, practice, practice always yields better & better results. Try it on old pieces you may deem expendable. You may discover the experimental piece is worth keeping. I’m always trying new ways of weathering models.
Leftover parts & a junk box; with a little imagination fun’s not far behind. Two walls from my previous builds, plus, what I think was the side of a church & some doors, led to this.
Some scrap plastic to fill in the bottom, a piece of “loading dock” from the parts box, & here we go. Added a section of plastic sprue to hold up the dock, painted base color, & now ready to weather.
But what are we going to do with a three-sided building?
So we hid the back-side. Big deal. Now what? Let’s combine it with Kitbash Part 2.
Next time, we’ll add some details & ground cover.