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Hey all,

I just wrote a follow-up to my article on weathering powders from a few weeks back.

This time, I look at the different ways of mixing your pigments before applying them and the pros and cons of all the methods.

http://ik-painter.blogspot.com/2011/12/tools-of-trade-different-fixers-for.html

Cheers,


IK-Painter

Quite interesting that is, thanks.

Hey brother, Not to pimp my own blog, but this might help you in the future. It seems you have access to real weathering powders, but if you're ever not within access of said powder, You could try this.

http://eotndiaord.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-make-your-own-weathering-powders.html

I've said it before and I'll say it again, pastels have binders in them that will make the pigment misbehave when using certain techniques to apply and fix it.

I don't know why people are so antsy about spending $5 on a pot of pigment that will last hundreds of models worth of weathering. Are we all really THAT strapped for cash?

Good tutorial and love your blog Ik-Painter. Love the warjacks!

I just stopped at a local Hobby Lobby and found a couple sets of artist pastels all in earth-tones. I used Scipio's technique and created a set of twelve varying shades of weathering powders. Basically these are the same pigments FW uses, and I now have a full range of weathering Pigments for 6 dollars and about 1/2 hour worth of time.

Sarpedon_702 wrote:I just stopped at a local Hobby Lobby and found a couple sets of artist pastels all in earth-tones. I used Scipio's technique and created a set of twelve varying shades of weathering powders. Basically these are the same pigments FW uses, and I now have a full range of weathering Pigments for 6 dollars and about 1/2 hour worth of time.

It's like people are actively ignoring me sometimes...

BINDERS PEOPLE!!!

Scipio Africanus wrote:Hey brother, Not to pimp my own blog, but this might help you in the future. It seems you have access to real weathering powders, but if you're ever not within access of said powder, You could try this.

http://eotndiaord.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-make-your-own-weathering-powders.html

Or just ebay proper powders?

Im sure the crushed pastel works fine but its a lot of effort and mess.

Aerethan wrote:

Sarpedon_702 wrote:I just stopped at a local Hobby Lobby and found a couple sets of artist pastels all in earth-tones. I used Scipio's technique and created a set of twelve varying shades of weathering powders. Basically these are the same pigments FW uses, and I now have a full range of weathering Pigments for 6 dollars and about 1/2 hour worth of time.

It's like people are actively ignoring me sometimes...

BINDERS PEOPLE!!!

I did not intentionally ignore, you I missed that part. Sorry, I was also posting from my phone which made the text a bit smaller. I have used alcohol and water for fixing and after the drying Just Testor's Dullcote. I guess, knowing which techniques cause issues would be a good place to start. I wasn't aware of any. I looked into this over a year ago, and the only issues I had seen were with some oil based conte' crayons.... Anyway, I apologize for missing that in your previous post....

Synchro wrote:Good tutorial and love your blog Ik-Painter. Love the warjacks!

Thank you :-)

I've read some good things about weathering with a pencil - maybe I'll use something like that on my next Warjack.

Cheers,


IK-Painter