Rusting a HO Scale Car into a Junkyard Heap with AK Interactive Rust Deposits & Corrosion Texture
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- čas přidán 24. 08. 2024
- Rusting a Plastic HO Scale Car into a Junkyard Heap
This project was a ton of fun and it ended up turning an otherwise useless Life-Like plastic car into something that we’ll actually use on our layout!
The things I used for this process were:
-A junky Life-Like or other brand el-cheapo plastic vehicle
-AK Interactive Corrosion Texture
-AK Interactive Crusted Rust Deposits (set)
-Mineral Spirits
-Brush
-Weathering Chalks
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Each step of this was fairly simple and you don’t need to worry about being super exact with your rust as it wouldn’t be uniform or balanced in nature either.
Step 1 - Prepare the car
Step one was to remove the wheels and window glass (plastic).
I did this in the WORST possible way for safety, so please don’t do it the way I did and use a safer tool.
After the parts are all removed from the car, you can spray the outside and inside shell of the body of the vehicle with a flat black spray paint.
The spray paint covers up the completely fake look of the cheapy plastic car and gives it some visual weight.
Step 2 - Apply the Corrosion Texture
This step and the steps following are really up to you and how much rust you want the vehicle to have.
Applying the corrosion texture next is what will give your car a very corroded look and almost like the metal panels on the car are peeling and withering away to nothing. Kind of like how rust looks when it’s very old and ‘flakey’ or bubbling the metal.
Follow the video for examples on how I applied the crusted rust & the rust deposits.
I used the heavy rust deposits as a base coat and gave it a pretty thorough covering. This is totally up to you, but do make sure to hit the areas that have more of the corrosion texture built-up.
For the second and third rounds of crusted rust deposits (medium and light), you’re going to want to use less and less, only creating area’s where the rust is built-up more.
The key is layers… Layers, layers, and patience… And Layers.
Once you’re happy, you can apply an optional wash of mineral spirits LIGHTLY to even out the tones of the rust. If you only rusted a small spot, you probably don’t need to do that.
Step 3 - Applying some weathering chalks
The final step of the rusting/corrosion process that I do is to just hit the while vehicle body with a layer of brown chalks to tone it all down a little bit more, then go back over the areas of the car like bumpers, grilles, panel lines and such with a very little bit of black chalks.
From here you can decide to re-insert the plastic glass window insert and re-paint the wheels and tires to make them more realistic or not. That’s for another video, this one was just about rusting a car completely.
Hope you enjoyed the video tutorial of how we turned a Life-Like vehicle into a rust heap!
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I just used this method on a set of 1/35 scale tank tracks which are going on a derelict Tiger 1, came out very nice! Thanks for sharing your secret brew!
Good information , I am currently building a 1/64 scale junkyard . Very cool work and direction.
Mike Espo.
Very nice! I am working on a small model at about 1/88 scale with lots of detail. I've never "weathered" or "Distressed" a model before so I need to practice. I have a bunch of HO scale cars for another project but I see no reason not to use those for practice. This will work very nice because I have a friend who has an HO train setup and he needs a realistic looking "Junkyard" VERY badly ;) Thanks much for your video as you cover weathering at this small scale!
Thanks for watching Grant!
Thank YOU for making this video@@WileysScaleModeling !!
Thanks for this. I have these products coming so am looking of ideas of my models/ CZcams channel.
What brand weathering chalks are you using?
Someone shared one of your videos to my new Facebook group called TRAINS ACROSS THE WORLD and it was awesome and now I'm going to share this video to my group my goal behind the group is to bring everyone together in this world to share the love of this hobby in one place from railfanning, how to videos, layout updates, abandoned railroads, photos and anything about train's please feel free to stop by and check out the group and join us it would be great to have someone share their love of this hobby of weathering tips in the group will the world
Thank you, we've got a lot more videos coming your way too!
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Nice work, thanks. Another question though: do you seal in the rust colour, and if so, how? This is obviously more relevant for miniature wargamers than for diorama builders...
Heavy coat of clear coat would probably do the job
@@jameschambers9312 Mh... my problem with varnish is that no matter which one you use (matt, gloss, semi-gloss etc.) it always changes the the look of the varnished surface, which might be especially relevant for rust, which has a very particular look. Same problem with metallic surfaces. Not varnishing is not really an option if you regularly use minis in games.
@@jameschambers9312 Thing is, I've tried different varnishes (gloss, silk, matte) for metallic surfaces, and all of them significantly alter their look. Same goes for rust, without varnish is has that fantastic authentic quality that I'd like to preserve.
I feel like your contrast is up increadibly high, I'm following along and my results at each stage are a lot darker than yours.