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Hy Everybody!
My father, who builds some great plastic models, often builds vehicles dressing the White UN paint scheme used in peace keeping operations. As the vehicles are usually dirty, they can´t be painted bland white, so what he does for getting that "used" effect in painting the tank in layers: the first Black, the second Dark Grey, the third Light Grey and the fourth White, always leaving the holes in darker colors, for giving the shade effect.
I wonder if it wouldn´t be possible to do it in LEGO, leaving the vehicles holes in darker colors and slowly fading then to the White, for breaking the brightness of the white a little.
What do you think?
Posted at 11:26AM, 11 July 2010 PDT
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Give it a shot or you can always go the ghetto approach and use old and dirty/stained white parts.
Posted 23 months ago.
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From my understanding, it seems like it would require many layers. I'd so give it a try. I'd love to see how it would turn out.
Posted 23 months ago.
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Well my dad used to burn/melt parts of star wars x-wing to make it look like it was shot but you can use very well ground up dirt and glue it on
Posted 23 months ago.
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There are also some pretty decent decals out there for a warn and battleworn look.
Posted 23 months ago.
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Or build it in all white, then strategically place lights to bleach/fade the bricks.
Posted 23 months ago.
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It's a matter of contrast. The dirt/ weathering tends to gently fade from one colour to the next. I think that in general the contrast between LEGO colours that lie close together tends to be too large to make that work using bricks alone.
The only weathering that I did that I was reasonably happy about was on one of my F-14 Tomcats.
US Navy jets tend to look a bit grubby, mainly because of the need to keep touching up their paint in the constant fight against salt-water corrosion. The only reason why it works is because the difference between the colours I used (light blueish grey and old light grey) is subtle. It is hard to see in the picture and only marginally clearer if you see it in real life. The mix is a bit pachy, but that's OK because the repainting is usually done in patches.
My M113 represents a vehicle that was used in Iraq. It is in standard NATO camouflage (which I repreoced using dark green, brown and black), but being used in a destert, the real vehicle had a really dusty appearance. I came to the conclusion that there aren't any colours that are close enough to those to have a sufficiently gentle fade to give it a realistic dirty appearance. The same applies to my LMTV. It is tan. The contrast between tan and the two colours that probably come closest to it (dark tan and old light grey) is too large as well.
I reckon that for a white vehicle the contrast between the white and other light colours (tan or grey) to represent the dirt is too large. If you don't want to make your shiny new bricks dirty, use dirty old bricks or do permanent damage to them stickers are probably your best option.
Posted 23 months ago.
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For dirty white, build in white and use this old trick:
Burn this
with this
No permanent damage :-)
Example:
www.brickshelf.com/gallery/gustavelerouge/LMG-2010-Entry/...
Originally posted 23 months ago.
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John Lamarck edited this topic 23 months ago.
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John, you´re one evil genius :P
Posted 23 months ago.
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I'm not sure I'd want to do that with my LEGO, although the end effect looks impressive. How easy does it come off?
Posted 23 months ago.
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Just wash with water and a old toothbrush and it goes off.
Originally posted 23 months ago.
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John Lamarck edited this topic 23 months ago.
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John's idea sounds like it's worth a try. As long as no permanent damage is done!
I keep toying with the idea of things like powdered graphite and brushing it on. It rubs off quite easily though so minimal handling of the MOC would be a must.
Water with quite a lot of clay (or vice versa perhaps) in it would work quite nicely I think, brushed on gently, once it drys it'll leave a small amount of silt on the bricks which can be cleaned off in areas as required.
Just my 2 cents....
Posted 23 months ago.
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