Rust Paint

Jem · Post by **Jem** » Fri Sep 09, 11 7:47 pm

My first attempt.

Jem · Post by **Jem** » Fri Sep 09, 11 7:48 pm

Here's another.

TYREMAN · Post by **TYREMAN** » Fri Sep 09, 11 7:58 pm

IS it Hellboys gun?

Rebel · Post by **Rebel** » Fri Sep 09, 11 8:44 pm

Well impressed with that Jem. looks amazing

Post by **TyreFryer** » Fri Sep 09, 11 9:45 pm

Is it a practice run for the Belvedere Jem?

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Sat Sep 10, 11 9:16 am

Crikey, that's effective!

Jem · Post by **Jem** » Sat Sep 10, 11 4:27 pm

Not Hellboy's gun. This is how it started off.

Post by **TyreFryer** » Sat Sep 10, 11 4:54 pm

Wow Jem!

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Sat Sep 10, 11 4:56 pm

That's quality !!

Credit where credit's due mate, thats really good!

I love the stuff Jeff does too with the painting.

A real talent to be able to paint like that

AllKiller · Post by **AllKiller** » Sat Sep 10, 11 4:58 pm

Jem, wow thats good...you could do a whole engine( if you could live with it ?) and really shock em when you run an 11

Trigger_Andy · Post by **Trigger_Andy** » Sat Sep 10, 11 5:14 pm

Outstanding.

At first I thought you where looking for paint to paint over the Rust on the Gon.

TYREMAN · Post by **TYREMAN** » Sat Sep 10, 11 8:41 pm

Well done

thought you had a real weapon there

So how is the rust done? you must have added some texture to it to make it a rough surface? is it Umberol type model paint used?

DaveBishop · Post by **DaveBishop** » Sat Sep 10, 11 9:27 pm

If its the same product I have used this in model making for a few years now the one I use has three parts and you apply one part at a time and it forms real rust. Jem you dry brush work looks fantastic

Trigger_Andy · Post by **Trigger_Andy** » Sat Sep 10, 11 9:29 pm

DaveBishop wrote:If its the same product I have used this in model making for a few years now the one I use has three parts and you apply one part at a time and it forms real rust. Jem you dry brush work looks fantastic

Jem · Post by **Jem** » Sun Sep 11, 11 2:52 pm

The product is called 'Rost Effektlack'. As you've most probably guessed it's German. Made by a company called Profiautolacke. Not cheap by any means - from memory about £80 for half a litre. It's got the consistency of thick treacle and gray in colour.

Took me ages to get the hang of the stuff. Needs thinning down with thinners to make it manageable.

The instructions say to leave it and let it do it's own thing but seeing as I'm the impatient type I accelerated the process by dousing it in a heavy saline solution.

After I did the gun I wanted to take the stuff to it's limits and see what I could achieve.

My next project was the 'Space Jockey' from Alien. Took me over six weeks to do and I have to say that I'm pleased with the results. Hard to tell from the pics but it's over 15" tall and was a real labour of love.

After constantly dousing and washing off the saline solution I left the last two coasts on and left it to dry. Got a great effect as the salt crystallized.