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Update... Another weathering layer... more will follow...

Masking with Humbrol Maskol...
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After this, the borders have been painted with Vallejo wash "light gray" and the mask has been removed.
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After this, the wash color has been smudged down, to blur and fade out the hard contures.
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Result for last night:
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Effect works for me, because if you are a bit away from the model, it blurs the weathering effects and they don`t jump into your eye. I don`t like to much effect, so it shall only work if you are close to the kit. 
 

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The painting and weathering steps till yet:

1. Ground painting the sanded Tomcat white
2. Airbrushing the engravings dark gray 
3. Airbrushing the surface plates with brown/gray (in a crazy looking pattern)
4. Airbrushing the original Navy FS colors
5. Weathering with Vallejo light gray (engravings)
6. Sealing with Cerakote clear paint / polishing down
7. Weathering with Vallejo white (lightens up the model a bit, looks like the paint is burned out by sun)
8. Sealing with Cerakote clear paint / polishing down
9. Weathering with Modelmaster color
10. Sealing with Cerakote clear paint / polishing down
11. Weathering with Vallejo oily brown
12. Weathering with with Vallejo dark gray and light gray (dirt)

upcoming:
13. Weathering with Vallejo (Footsteps and Handprints)
14. Weathering with oil colors wind wished dirt
15. Sealing with Cerakote clear paint / polishing down
16. Placing decals
17. Sealing with Cerakote clear paint / polishing down
18. Maybe weathering some decals to the level if necessary
19. Sealing with Cerakote clear paint / dusting matte / polishing to the semi gloss level I need

I know, this is much clear coating, but due to the quality of Cerakote clear paint, this is no problem - the sealing is very very thin and very very hard. This is something I especially do, because the Cerakote paint is ceramic based and oil resistant. This means the weathering steps work a bit different. If once it is sealed, no liquid will take the clear coat away. 

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Looks good Volker but, my question is that if you apply your gloss coat for the decals and sand / polish it down, will the decals still lay down nice because now you've essentially created a flat coat ??

 

Steve

 

"TOMCATS FOREVER, BABY...!"

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