Hi all, I have bought some Verlinden's WW2 newspaper product and would like to ask what is the best way to make these paperwork stuff such newspaper, map, magazine, etc to look like it has been used for a while and appear oldish? Shall I soak it in some kind of liquid? Thank you!

coffee

Tea works as well.

I have used tea, and works very well.

I got a good effect with a brown yellow water color mix. erring to yellow.

Have fun!

I think the tea and coffee solution will just make them look very old, like decades old, l would just fold the and clamp them to make them look well used, or use a small diameter tube to make a tea or coffee mug stain, but the folding into a small object and clamping in a vice for a minute or two then unfolding is the best way that l have found.

ANTO.

Is the Verlinden product on porous paper or is it a decal? If a decal then the coffee/tea trick may not work as it would not absorb the stain.

Try first copying the Verlinden sheet with a color copier onto a light tan paper. The copy paper/print will right away make it look more real.

I would go easy on the coffee/tea staining unless you are looking for an extremely old looking effect.

I love the idea of using a tube to form a coffee stain on the paper!

Tamiya offers some "Yank" newspapers with their Dragon Wagon Recovery kits. (Just printed as part of their instruction sheet.) I used one once but always thought the paper looked way too "white". I will be going home tonight to paint on some coffee to tone it down a bit!

Now why didn't I think of that? ;-D)