March 11 2007 |

Now here is the first layer of paint applied to the fornt part of the boat -no weathering nor pigments nor whatever

March 11 2007 |

.. second picture and on to more work

March 13 2007 |

not much time left this week-end but I managed to get the boat painted -though without any pigments and rust.

March 13 2007 |

This evening i will paint the rust on the boat and hopefully the boiler too.

March 16 2007 | Applying the rust #1

Now I applied the rust my way, but this time I used a far greaterrange of colours so that i could have high-highlights and dark shadows.
So the trick is to underpaint the metal bit in a rusty base colour, while also preshading the right parts with a blacker shade...

March 16 2007 | Applying the rust #2

... Then you take your cup, of whatever you use to mix your paint and you put some thinned black acrylic paint, as well as black, red, burnt sienna and yellow pigments.

March 16 2007 | Applying the rust #3

Then using the thinned black paint as a binder you dip your brush in the burnt sienna pigments and just apply the pigments on the wet paint very carefully but very randomly too. Finally you blend some parts of the pigments with the black underpainting. And you do that using a mix of the yellow and red pigments (just crush them together with a brush) on the strategic parts you want to get shinier.

the result as clearly seen on the pictures is a very matt finish, with some places where the pigments will actually create some extra TEXTURE.
I see some people use some gunze paints to paint their rusty things like for instance the exhaust pipes of tanks. This is a bad idea as the whole will lack some dephths methinks..

I have been doing the same on the rusty metal parts of the wood boat;
but i am rather unhappy with the rusty run ofs as well as some rivets that lack od details, so i will come back to this very soon.

If you have any questions, feel free to email (above) or ask a question directly (below)!

March 18 2007 | Bricks asbestos debris and engine painted

I had some large lumps of "asbestos" and plaster left when i scratched the whole boiler, so i painted it in order to cover the ground near the boiler itself. The bricks were painted with several washes of red and black over the unprepared plaster.