Gunpla Tutorial: How to Weather for the Absolute Beginner 

"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"

this tutorial is like the Bob Ross of gunpla weathering

"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.

The final matte coat made a huge difference! Thank you for the video.

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.

So simple yet so effective. Totally gonna start using this technique

Thx with this tutorial, now i can improve more

Pro video. Great job! I'm currently on the weathering stage for my wine red and burnt orange Hi-Mock.

alternatively u can use brown paint instead of black paint when sponging to create a rusting effect.

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.

Thanks man, this was some Bob Ross shit. I'm super new to Gunpla and I plan to weather at least one of my models. This is huge.

Just bought my first gunpla kit. Excited to get started!

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 ❤

Perfect weathering tutorial! Thank you

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.

As an absolute beginner- I thank you for putting in the effort to make such an informative and helpful video. Can’t wait to try this for myself.

Fave thing about watching build videos, is all the comments of people asking question clearly covered in said video 😂

This was very helpful, I overdid the weathering on my first attempt, watched this video for clues, and did much better on the second attempt!

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

Looks great, though I'm usually a fan of rounding it off with a dirt/grime layer of black, brown and gray.

Hey brotha, thanks!

Looks convincing. Like a well used Hot Wheel. Pretty cool.

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.

The matt coat really makes the difference going to have to get some matt coat now 😂😂

Wow. Nice tutorial. With such little work it looked so different.

Great tutorial

Keep it up man i finally found the best and easiest to understand video for gunpla modding

Great tutorial! Going to try it this weekend.

Looks easy enough. Next time I build an HG kit I'll try it out.

this helped me so much and will definitely improve my gunpla!

Getting my tieren next weekend. Gunna try this

Dry brush is basic n good for all type model 👍🏻

I'm gonna try this on my MG Barbatos. Thank you for the tutorial. This helps a lot for beginners like me.

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.

Wow, that is very straightforward. You make it look very simple. Im gonna try this!! Thanks very much for the video!!

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.

Thanks. This is just what I needed and see where my mistake was. I wanted a subtle method and this is great.

brilliant, thank you

This is so simple and straight forward, very helpful

As a beginner.. I just you thank you Jesse.. This is very useful

Only just started watching but I gotta say Im loving the red schwalbe graze!

really nice step-by-step tutorial

your coloring and weathering reminds me of the sentry from team fortress 2.

Thanks man, imma try this out tonight

Simple, direct and awesome. Thank you

thanks for these tutorials builds more confadence in wat i want to do (:

Subtlety and story. AWESOME

imercive video dude, audio is so clear!! gd explanations too. keep it up!

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...

Lemme call my boy spongebob to help

Again very well done and very comprehensive work my dude!

This video is awesome and useful for me. Thank you for the useful info

This vid feels like i want to weather my kit ..im not satisfied now by just building ..huhuh after i watched this vid..thanx man ..

Awesome tutorial, thanks man !!!

Looks great

You’re awesome man thanks.

For a white model (matsanuga white wolf), after I sponge the black down, should I dry brush with silver or a more copper/gold darker color?

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.

so gloss coat, weather, then matte coat?

Great tutorial ... thank you

thanks for the video!

Looks good. I may do this to my MPP10

Amazing video. Thank you

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!

Awesome thanks for sharing

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!

Thank you my friend's i just wanna make diorama within my first ever gumpla and thank you for the tutorial

We gotta cook jesse

Awesome video just subscribed.

Very cool

Can't wait for the next video :)

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

Really helpfull video ! Thank you

So, black dry-brushing on lighter colors. And what color would you sponge on?

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!

To summarize, I need basically are black enamel, silver acrylic, brush, and sponge, matte top coat?

So should i shading first or straight to weathering

Dope dude.

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?

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!

Broo finally i figure it ou thx a lot🙌🙌

You said not to use silver for whites and yellows, what color would you use?

Excelent

Do you recommend weathering before or after applying decals??

This is awesome bro. I am a casual builder and this makes my kits look better and realistic. Have u tried doing shading using pastels?

Would a gray work better for lighter colors like white and tan

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.

Do u have a color guide for what is right for different colors of armour? New to the hobby and want to weather rx-78

very easy and straight forward! question on that silver paint, what is ideal? is that a flat/matte?

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?

Can anyone tell me what color to use on white for dry brushing? Is you can't use silver what color should you use?

So if I want to weather a mostly white Gunpla model i use black for sponging and dry brushing?!

I'm still a beginner in gunpla and now I know how to weather my favvorite gundams thanks for the tutorial