hi guys, im new here and i got confuse about whats Weathering ?, Winter camo ?
what the best step to paint a tank ? and for weathering what colour can i use ?
or any website related to this ?
thanks guys

Welcome!


In a nutshell, dirtying up a subject to make it look used. Dust, dirt, mud, smoke, oil spills, dents, scratches, etc. on military vehicles. On cars, you'd see this on end of race vehicles with rubber marbles on the front and brake dust along the sides and exhaust stains.


Some form of white wash (easily remved white paint) applied over the basic color of the tank. Some WWII aircraft had this as well, especially on the Eastern Front.


Prime if you want with a neutral color after subassemblies are complete. Paint the wheels before attaching them, as with the turret and any cupolas. Paint the base color and assemble. Apply any camo scheme after assembly to make sure your patterns match. Apply a glossy finish. Apply decals. Add a wash of thinned dark paint, black, payne's gray, or burnt umber. Don't slather this in, but place a small drop along corners, bolt heads, panel lines and grill work. When this is dry, mix your base color with white and drybrush the high points (touch a wide brush to the paint and wipe almost all of it off on a rag before running the brush across the model). Do this with two or three successively lighter mixes of the base color. Now apply a a flat finish.


Depends on where the model is suposed to have been in real life. A good medium for this is artists' pastel chalk from an arts & craft store. Do not oil oil pastels. Shave this into a dust and scrub it in where you want dust and smoke.


You've found it. You can do a search for any of these subjects and come up with numerous threads discussing them.


You're welcome.

Hi,

A warm welcome to AA.

For weathering you have an article - Weathering heresies by Paul Owen, here at ArmoramA.


HTH

Welcome to the best site for solving /learning things. Just do your tank one step at a time. Ask questions as needed and you'll probably get 4 - 5 responses to give you an idea on how you might want to do it. AJ told you just about everything you could want, but if there is something you are unclear on post another question.You don't have limits on how many questions you can ask.

hi guys thanks for all the information at least i can understand what does it mean.
is it possible for winter camo to use white oil paint ? and cover with arcylic colour ?
what do u suggest for grey tank to look faded ?
thks

Any white paint will do. The good thing about whitewash as used in WWII is that it was applied by brush, broom, mop or just by pouring it on from the bucket.

For faded gray, start with a lighter gray than you wanted, wash with black and drybrush with lighter and lighter shades of gray. Do some drybrushing on the flat surfaces as well.