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after chatting with people at the lgs and seeing a tutorial on another forum, i decided i'd try weathering using salt

i started by mixing some graphite and georgia red clay with thinned down tamiya flat brown. I was rather careless, but graphite and clay should be very finely ground/cut to prevent clogging. It was a lot of trouble spraying this first layer on.


Next I used foam to dab on blazing orange, followed by dark flesh, and finally bestial brown. Doing the browns after the orange helped to tone down the intensity of the orange.


Then i rubbed graphite powder over the pieces. I think this step makes the rust look much better.


I sprayed dullcote on to protect the graphite. I ground sea salt with varying sizes hoping to add realism. I stuck it on using water. It didnt work too well, so i brushed on more water to try to make it stick better.


After letting it dry, I airbrushed red over the pieces. I had to keep the airbrush far to prevent from blowing off the looser pieces of salt. After the red dried, I brushed the salt off under water and this is the final product.


next time i think im going to start with thinned down brown without the added junk. I am very pleased with the way the rust effect looks before the paint. I have some mixed feelings about the final product. I dont know why the red looks so faded around the chipping. Id like to find a better way to get the salt to stick as well.

let me know what you guys think. this is my first attempt so im still working on how to make it look better. any tips are welcome.

The whitish halo around your red comes from the salt, probably because you used too much water when the salt was already in place. If you're a grown-up, go check your t-shirts after working out in them on the next day - you'll have that same whitish residue in there which is also from salt.

Personally, I'd tone down the red. The salt marks aren't bad but a few washes and highlights would do wonders for the red.

Personally the light red edges make it look better. It looks like the primer betweent he bare metal and the red paint that is cracking off.

nice job