"Now when we are weathering the gunpla, keep in mind how you wanna tell this little guys story, maybe he used to be a lumber jack, or just wanted to live in the peace of the forest, ok now grab your dry brush and we are gonna paint some happy little bullet holes"
I kinda like the idea of taking a sniper mobile suit, and using battle damage and weathering to turn it into the god of a town as well as their occasional artillery Piece.
"Subtletly" is the best advice you give on this video. Saw a guy on here do weathering on a HGBF Red Berret, the armor looked like it was made out of the bottom of a 50yo dumpster D:
This has to be the most straight forward and accessible weathering tutorial I have for beginners like me. I was not even considering weathering until now. Very much appreciated!
Can’t stress enough that this guide was really useful to me as the titular “absolute beginner. I used it on my red comet alongside some other techniques for battle damage, and got a result I’m really satisfied with.
This is easily my favorite tutorial on basic weathering. It's easy to follow and hits all the important parts while showing how it looks on a well-done model. Awesome work, looking forward to more awesome content. Fushido out
Honestly, the longer you use a brush for weathering, the better. As it gets crusty and the bristles start pointing in all directions, it'll help the outcome look more random and realistic. I got some cheap ones i was intending to use for cleaning my airbrush till they got old then start using them for weathering, but they're such crap the bristles are coming off in a form of dandruff all over the place.
Thank you for helping me out with this. Either it is a painted kit or not, I'm getting used to the sponge + drybryshing and I love how it looks. Also as you mention there's lots of people out there who weather so so much that the model kit becomes horrible to my taste. I like them mainly clean, but with a few "battle scratches" and this is probably the best example I found.
@@DanielLopez-fg9zc Oh nice! I never did Gunpla as a kid but did a ton of Zoids. This will be my first attempt at doing anything other than just building them though
This is an amazing tutorial for me because I just got my first model (Flash Messer) and I want to go all out on this beautiful hobby. Thank you for this video ❤
Thanks for this man. I’m so afraid of messing up a paint job that I only like a little weather effects and you’d be surprised how five mins of work can add depth and character to a build. Thank you so much.
Very nice work! I've been building model kits since I was a kid in the 70s back in the Aurora days. I discovered a lot of these techniques by mistake while experimenting. Now I build a lot of the Bandai Kits . They really are a pleasure to work with compared to the old Glue and pray kits. I still like the Tamiyas. The Japanese manufacturing is on another level
Assuming mobile suit is anything like modern tank armor, you really want to keep weathering subtle. You can hit an Abrams with .50 cal all day and not chip the paint.
Cheers man. I've been trying to pre weather my kits before spraying but not having much luck. This seems so easy. I'm going to go through a few of my older kits again. Thanks alot.
Would it be better to matte top coat and then dry brush silver? I feel like it would give the 'scratching' effects more pop because "bare metal" is usually pretty shiny, and applying a matte top coat on top of silver paint dulls that effect.
It's to shiny if you do that, in reel life if you scratch you car paint, you doesn't have a super sunny shiney light grey under. if you flat top coat metal paint, you can always see it's shiny (less than if you dont top coat) and it's real life proof. 😃
Haha wow its good that you made this video because I really could use that tip about subtlety and lack of restraint. I got way too crazy with my kits when I dry brushed them. Cavemen indeed were dry brushing. 'weather good dry brush wall fire!'
This is a great tutorial, a shame I didn’t find it sooner. I was trying to make a Mega scale RX-78-2 look like it was rusty, and at the time I only had a Tamiya weathering master kit, and I only used that to completely cover the kit...
How about if I wanted to make the light parts (ie white, yellow) look weathered? What color should I use? Thanks and great simple tutorial btw! Really helpful for begginers like me.
@@BoundByGundams thanks very much for the prompt response! I'll start practicing doing weathered builds. Wish me luck and thanks again for this easy to follow guide!
Loving the tutorials man thank you for everything you do! Would it be ok to add the decals before doing the weathering? And do you have a tutorial for damage ? Thank you!
learning how to weather because some details are too shallow for me to panel cleanly, imma just weather the whole kit and hide those imperfect panel lines
Thank you! Any suggestions on what colour paint would you use on off white gunpla? Silver and black make sense on a coloured gunpla as it imitates paint scratched away. But what about off white painted body?
Super helpful, straight to the point, very informative, and easy to follow! I haven't started painting/weathering my kits yet but plan on doing so pretty soon. I have a couple of questions if you don't mind helping me out (and hopefully others as well)... 1. Will there be any difference in result from top-coating the assembled build (torso + arms + legs) or top-coating separately before assembling? 2. Does top-coating (with matte coat in this video) have much (if any) effects on articulation? Again, thank you for this (and other) awesome tutorials!
Awesome video quick and easy to understand. Quick question why do you use enamel and acrylic paint and not both of the same type like both enamel and enamel
Hey Jesse Clary! Awesome tutorial! Question, did you pre coat your kit before doing the weathering with glossy and then top coat with matte finishing after paint? Or did you just weathered the kit and top coated. I'm learning how to paint kits and a bit confuse on how to start my process. Thanks!
very informative video.I learned a lot but I have a question and I don't know if you cover this or not but I'm wanting to weather my GM K9 to look like it been in the forest fighting since his color would fit especially since the K9 is based off the GM sniper II and i want to make the legs look somewhat muddy but not crazy muddy and i don't know how to do about doing that except doing it the way you did in this video but use brown paint along the edges of the leg instead of black but i want tomake it a little more noticable that he been snipping with his legs down on the muddy ground
Wonderful tutorial.. wouldn't the more natural weathering be the full suit? Because thats how the wear and tear would happen. Not piece by piece. The whole suit is being weathered... lol other than confusing me on that statement I loved this tutorial. Definitely beginner friendly. WONDERFUL TUTORIAL
Awesome tips, I'm getting back into model kits after so many years so these videos are great for me! Quick question though, when you apply your top coating at the end, did you take the build apart and spray/airbrush like you did with primer and colour, or do you keep it whole and apply the top coat to the entire thing?
@@BoundByGundams Awesome, thank you :) I'm currently mucking around with HG kits and building up the courage to attempt a custom paint, your tutorials are going to be a huge help when I decide to take the plunge :)
Question here - Do you typically dry brush or sponge first? You obviously sponge first, but I've seen other videos dry brushing first. I'm just curious if it matters or if its based on preference. Amazing and straight forward video, thank you!
@@BoundByGundams For parts like blue, light blue, gold and yellow would you still weather with black? I guess a simpler way to ask this is do you only weather using silver on black parts?
This kit was painted, was it given a clear coat after being painted. If it was did you add a matte coat on top of the clear coat after it was weathered.
Great video, I'll definitely try this out on my next build! Question though: Does it matter that the silver you drybrush over the black is enamel and the black itself is acrylic? Also on this painted build it's: Paint > Gloss > Weathering > Matte Coat What kind of paint did you use for the red (acrylic/ enamel?) and does that matter too?