How to make rust effect tutorial 2: Peeling rust

Next chapter on this tutorial about rust:

How to create peeling rust:

What you will need for this:

- Various rust tones with acrylic paint. They have to be MATT
- Your model paint colour must be SATIN
- Maskol
- An old brush to apply the Maskol

First of all, I'm applying layers of rust tones with acrylic paint.



Let's take this Tiger 1 model as exemple:

Here you can see I painted a first layer of rust tone, on the side (the darker area) as well as in front of the grill, I applied Maskol with an old brush where I want to get the peeling effect on the paint.

Once it is dry (the Maskol must me transparent) I'm applying a coat of base colour on top of the it. Depending on the effect you want to achieve, you can superpose various layers of paint to represent the primer colour then your model colours. 

  

I let this coat of paint dry completely.

On this model, I wanted to represent too a burned effect on the paint so I putted chipping fluid followed by a layer of black. 

To know more about the burned out effect please check the Burned Out Tutorial. 

Now, with the help of a toothpick, we will lift some parts on the Maskol where we want to have the peeling effect.

On the next step you can use rust wash and pigments to get the result you are looking for.

This technique works on flat, inclined or vertical surfaces.

Another exemple on the side of the turret:

As you can see it isn't hard to get the aspect of the paint peeling due to rust of heat.

Now it is your time to try it, good work folks!