Weathering with powders

talon · Post by **talon** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:09 am

Being a studio art major I have a lot of pastels and charcol left over from my drawing classes, so my question is this: is it just as good of a weathering job with charcol ground up and brushed on than pastels ground up and brushed on? I'm wondering because I have several projects that will require weathering and I think an airbrush lacks something that the powders achieve. But I have lots and lots of dark black charcol, not so much black pastel.

Mr. Badwrench · Post by **Mr. Badwrench** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:14 am

Charcoal sticks work just as well as pastels. The only problem is putting raw black powder on a model doesn't look very good. It really should be cut with other colors to make dark shades and greys.

redfinger · Post by **redfinger** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:45 am

I picked up a chalk "weathering" kit at the hobby shop and did the weathering on my slave 1 with those. I did find thought that when I dull coated the model, after applying the chalk, the chalk did loose a little bit of it's intensity, next time I will just make them darker and they will lighten up when I coat the model.

http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e277/ ... 61/Slave1/

Ashton

Post by **TER-OR** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:06 pm

The pastels should grind a bit finer than charcoal, but I'm sure it has its uses.