After reading countless articles about weathering, I finally got my bum down to try out some of the weathering techniques I read about.
This is a sideskirt of a Stug III G Winter which i painted and weathered using some common techniques.
It's the first time for me trying to weather something and I would like to have some construktive feedback of what I could do better.

Thanks

Lars

hi lars nice weathering my freind some nice tones and effects. like the worn paint effect good stuff

Nice job. Please tell us the techniques that you used.

JB

nice work indeed. if you would like a suggestion for more weathering effects consider lightly airbrushing some very diluted Buff or Light Earth along the very bottom of the panels building a bit higher near the rear panels. also try adding some highlights or shadows to the large chips of paint, this is subtle but really adds to the realism. the weathering treatments can be overdone on some occasions but i have tried "practice models" and i like to push the effects in some areas and then look at the overall treatment to decide where is the "right" place to stop. cheers, mh.

Also, in general, think about the terrain and whatnot that your vehicle inhabits. If there may have been wooded areas, and yet the skirts are all still in very good shape, not missing, bent, damaged, etc... then possibly the tank was fairly new and shouldn't show that much weathering.

On the open steppe, it might have gone longer before potential damage occurred.

great job with the weathering. i'm thirteen so learning the techniques to things like isn't very easy, would someone be kind enough to help me out here?

Thanks for the nice words.
Was actually thinking about spraying some "dirt" on it but as I mainly focused techniques, like mapping, washing, filtering and so on it became not so important to me at the moment. And I'm still an apprentice with the airbrush and was really happy with the way the winter camo turned out. So i might chickened out a bit there.
Could u send me an example of the chipping u were talking about would be grateful.Really like u'r work

Thanks for the kind words everybody and useful hints. Grateful for everything.
Very good hint with the inviroment and damage Jesse. Will not forget about it when I really get my guts together to paint a whole model.
And to the techniques I primed the skirt black and then spryed Tamiyas dark yellow concentrating at the centeres of the diffrent "panels". Then a spray of highlightet dark yellow also concentrating at the centres there. Then pure white with the same technique.Then a try at mapping with andrea acrylic flat white. Sealed it with microscale semi gloss and then the infamous dot filtering with different oil colours. Rust streaking with burnt sienna oil. And som more oil filters in brown and a grey one which gave the whole thing a dirty greyish tone which I really liked. The chips were made with a sponge and raw umber oil. The large chipspot at the back was actually a fingerdamp accident which I could disguise as a pintchip. Halleluja for chipped paint.

hi lars, if you are thinking of trying light dust/dirt with that trusty airbrush of yours just know that you can use a very diluted mixture to build up such effects. try mixing the ratio 70 thinner and 30 paint and then spray with a quick movement over the model. you can build it up as you see fit. airbrushing is all about trying things gently and also think about toning down colours by respraying effects with the base colours, again really diluted. this is how professional airbrushers achieve subtle effects, they paint heavy handed and then tone it all the way back by over spraying with a light tone (say pink for caucasian faces).

you asked for some references on chipping so check out the masters. this link features hairspray techniques and most of the models shown have been featured in Military In Scale and Finescale Modelers magazines... it will blow your mind but you will have some inspiration:

http://www.migproductionsforums.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3293

cheers, mh

Thanks for the link some sick stuff there. Read a couple of times about the hairspray technique, but this is the first time someone is explaining it.
Looks a bit scary for a newbie like me but have the second skirt left and never planned to use them on the Stug model.
So will try some other techniques on that one.