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I have a good amount of models that I have painted over the last few years and many of them I painted in a somewhat clean "straight off the assembly line kind of way." While I liked this aesthetic to begin with, now that I've been playing with them for a while I'd like to add a little weathering/battledamage, but I dont want to repaint the entire model. I've been looking up weathering and battle damage techniques, but many of them seem to require special stage during the painting process, such as the hairspray method. Are there any good techniques for dirtying up a model post painting? I have a couple of the little weathering compacts that tamiya offers but I haven't used them aside from adding a little rust. Anything would be helpful. Thanks!

Normally you actually do most of the weathering after you painted. Add some dust and grime with washes/pigments and pick out worn edges and scuff marks with a suitable color. Look for the sponging method when doing this.

And as always try everything on a test model beforehand and less is more.

There was a thread quite recently about weathering...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/671407.page

There's a lot of methods that are done after painting. You can just paint scratches and chips on with a brush or sponge or both. Also using weathering powders, washes and oil paints should get you some decent results.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
There was a thread quite recently about weathering...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/671407.page

There's a lot of methods that are done after painting. You can just paint scratches and chips on with a brush or sponge or both. Also using weathering powders, washes and oil paints should get you some decent results.

Thank you!! There's a lot of good stuff in this thread.

I used hardly any paint on this:


Here's some more on this:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/302092.page

Have a look at this,it works really well.They've added a few new shades since this video;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwHP6Tj13DE

This is easy to do after the fact;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4yrqR4Jw8E