Tiger I 1/48 Winter camo "Part 4" LINKS

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Let's go to paint the spare links today.
Use tape to keep the links in position to be painted with Airbrush. Use a dark brown color, Tamiya or Mr Hobby could be perfect. Then, using the range of Lifecolor to make rust, paint different shades in some links.


As soon as it is dry, apply a coat of Worn Effects to create small chips.

Now apply the white color, Tamiya one mixed with a 40% of Gaianaotes lacquer thinner. Don't apply a heavy coat, just a little soft. With heavy coats is more diffciult to create small chipping.

After you paint it, use water and a flat hard brush to remove part of the white paint. before, you made humidify the surface with a little water, and wait few seconds until the white paint get fragil and ready to work.

Now glue the links to the turret with Super Glue. the rest of the weathering will be done with them in place.

use differnet shades of washes and Streaking grime colors and repeat the same proces like in the rest of the tank, but less intense.

You can repaint some chips if you don't like too much the look. Also, you can add some Streaking Rust and finally some highlight with white oil to refoirce the contrast.

With few steps the look is very realistic. Not needed too much steps and could be more than anought for a scale like 1/48 or 1/35.

Compare the size of the spare links with my fingers....

...and see how effective can be this technique in a close view.

Do you like it? I hope. The next chapter will be the last one for sure. Just mud and dust and final touches. But I thought that this subject deserved a chapter for it self.

Thank you very much one more time for follow this blog.

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MISSING THE LINK

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I have been some time offline, very busy and without enough time to upgrade my blog. But during the night I have found some minutes to publish an article about how to paint rusty links. The method is very laborious, but very simple. Although the final result worth the effort. Thanks to all you. I hope you like it.

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He estado algún tiempo desconectado, muy ocupado y sin tiempo suficiente para actualizar mi blog. Pero durante la noche he encontrado unos minutos para publicar un artículo sobre cómo pintar eslabones oxidados. El método es muy laborioso, pero muy sencillo. Aunque el resultado final merece el esfuerzo. Gracias a todos vosotros. Espero que os guste.

Use different Tamiya colors to paint each link.

Utiliza diferentes colores de tamiya para pintar cada eslabon.

With a sponge an the Dust And Rust set colors from LIFECOLOR, we will make some kind of chipping effects as you can see below.

Con una esponja y el set de LIFECOLOR Dust and Rust, pintaremos los primeros efectos de desconchones en la superficie como puedes ver en las fotos de abajo.

Also, with the same variete of colors we will apply some rust washes.

También, con la misma variedad de colores aplicaremos unos lavados de óxido.

To create a variety of shades, we will paint in faded green some links, like remains of old green color when the tank was painted with green camoflage.

Para crear más variedad de tonos, pintaremos en verde claro algunos eslabones, como restos de verde antiguo cuando el tanque fue pintado en camuflaje verde.

Now we will add the pigments. In the left (below), you can see links without pigments. Right ones with pigments.

Ahora añadiremos los pigmentos. In la izquierda, debajo, podeis ver eslabones sin pigmentos y en la izquierda con pigmentos.

Add randomly different rust colors with a brush...

Aplica de manera aleatoria diversos colors de óxido...

And then...damp them with a drop of turpentine.

Y después humedecelos con unas gotas de aguarrás.

In some links, we will paint dark areas with enamel colors as you can see in the picture below.

En algunos eslabones, podemos pintar zonas oscuras coin colores esmales como puedes observar debajo.

Now, add dust and light rust pigments again.This is the dusting phase. And as before damp them with clean turpentine in a way to fix the pigments.

Ahora, añade colores de polvo y óxido claro de pigmento otra vez. Esta es la fase de empolvado. Igual que antes, humedece la superficie con aguarras limpio para fijarlos.

Finally, we wil repeat the sponge chipping, but this time using very dark brown-rust colors.

Finalmente, repetiremos los desconchones de esponja, pero esta vez usando colores marron oxido muy oscuro.

The spare links used is in 1/16th scale, but you can apply the same technique in smaller scales with no problem. I think that the look is enought nice to decorate our tanks.

Los eslabones usados son en escala 1/16, pero puedes aplicar la misma tecnica en escalas más pequeñas sin problemas. Creo que el aspecto final es suficientemente atractivo para decorar nuestros tanques.

Thanks for take your time reding this.

Gracias por leer este articulo.

MIG