Happy Friday everyone!
I wanted to share a recent update i worked on with my helmet weathering. I wanted to try out some new skills on weathering and make my helmet look more realistic than toy-ish/replica. I shared the update on my kit WIP but i wanted to post it here to share to a wider audience!
Here is where I started. Not bad, but it left me wanting.
I started with an initial silver dry brush applied with a flat sponge.
I then moved in with some charcoal to dual the silver paint and round off the contrast:
After the charcoal, I used brown shoe polish to smudge and grime up the helmet. I wanted to give that mud, oil, grime look to the helmet:
After the shoe polish, I applied a clear gloss coat to the helmet. I did it sparingly at first and did another coat afterwards.
The shoe polish adds a patina to the helmet that I don’t think i could replicate with paint. The metal color looks worn and really moves the piece from toy/replica to prop piece. Overall, i am really pleased with how the helmet turned out. Enough so that I decided to start the weathering process on my other armor plates.
Enjoy!
Comments and suggestions welcome!
