Greetings,

I have been an airplane builder for years but recently made the switch to armour. Did it basically to try something different. I am presently working on a Tamiya humvee which I want to do in OIF sand color. I just picked up the Tamiya stowage set which has a bunch of stuff to add to the model. Can someone please tell me how to weather light colored backpacks and such? I built a Tamiya jeep in OD a year or so ago and did some weathering on the darker colors which turned out good. For some reason I am having trouble figuring out ho to do the same with sand or lighter colors.

Thanks,

cbreeze

Hi Charles,

Welcome to Armorama and AFV modeling. It may sound too simplistic, but you weather light colored stowage pretty much the same way as dark colored stowage. For sand, or desert yellow, type stowage, you want to give it a wash of some shade of brown or darker tan to darken the folds and shadows. Then add white to the base color to drybrush the highlights. Try to avoid pure white, but you can mix a REALLY light tan.