Quoted By:
One side of the hull done, now working on the other one. It looks really high contrast right now, but it should be toned down quite a bit once I get a flat coat on.
For anyone wondering, the process involves streaking grimes and oil paints, like art store oils.
I am using a burnt umber mixed with black artist oil for the bottom of the hull, to give it a nice muddy / worn dark rust look. All I did was take some pigment, hit the brush with some mineral spirits, dab most of it off so it's not so wet on a piece of cardboard and then stipple it onto the hull until I get it to my satisfaction. I did the same by also mixing a red and light brown artist oil for the hull to give the hull red additional Fading. With a small stiff brush I used some algae green color to add a bit of green to the waterline. After all that's done I took some dark red / brown streaking grime and made some streaks on the red portion and then using a dry brush after the paint was mostly dry, swiped down vertically to take away most of the paint until you're left with a worn streak.
For the bull I'm using a brown rust color and white artist oil to give it some more tonal variation. Same method as above, take a very thin brush that I've cut most of the hairs off so it's very thin and long, and make the streaks, let them dry for a minute or 2 and then with a flat ended brush blend everything into the hull.
So fucking tedious and I haven't even begun to get to the upper surfaces of the hull and the turrets which are going to be way more tedious to weather because there's so much more surface area and most of it's not flat or easy to get to with a brush. Just going to do some washes up there, a dark grey or something and then a few rust streaks here and there.
Tomorrow it will be 3 weeks since I started this working on it for several hours a day every single day. Takes so fucking long to build shipt but it's really worth it once you complete them and put them on a shelf.
