rusted factory elements

Choppa Nutta
👍 🙂

M.Julian Marles
thanks!

John Van Kooten
Experimentation! Great! Looking good so far! 👍

The colors in the pictures a quite saturated though, so we probably are not exactly seeing what you are seeing, right?

Choppa Nutta
I can imagine these pieces on a Tatoonie Star Wars diorama 🙂

Alan Rush
Nice! 👍 Now you just need a diorama to display them all! Any ideas or just truly experimenting?

Holger Kranich
Great job!
Have you done it with pigments? Vallejo Rust set? Real rust from the mill? I like it!!!😄

M.Julian Marles
Thanks guys, to the first point - yes, the photos are blown out, I apologize for that! I was throwing around the idea of a couple of abandoned factory vignettes...actually the only pigment was an old pouch of railroad rust I had from years ago, can't remember the brand! The rest is just thinner, alcohol, water, mixed with various strengths of reds, browns and yellows. I find if one simply dabs on spots and streaks and then let them dry, the result is much like the real thing that happens outside in the elements. Believe it or not I ran out of red so I just used acrylic craft paint from the dollar store!

M.Julian Marles
Choppa - you are not far from the truth! The large cylinder is actually a sci-fi wargame item! (so not all scrathbuilt ha ha!) ...The "Star Wars" look actually influenced me greatly, when I saw it in 1977 it really struck a chord with me! 🙂

Choppa Nutta
yeah I love all this excessive weathering, it somehow makes it look all the more realistic !
Can I encourage you to get a landspeeder kit and make a Mos Eisely diorama ?
A few mud huts with these things piped into them would really look the part 🙂

Urban Gardini
Rust never sleeps!

M.Julian Marles
hmm..maybe!!!