So in this post I’ll be showing the steps I took to weather one of the latest cars I finished and sold on eBay. I have to say this is probably one of the best cars I’ve done. To start off with, this car had three or four layers of weathering mediums on the car, including chipping medium to get the peeling paint effect.
The car as I recall started out with a Walther’s mainline series boxcar which is shown below out of the box:
On this project I’m trying to replicate the prototype car on the right above. The following photos will show the steps I used to get to the final result. Obviously the car was faded with a mixture of Vallejo pale blue and white acrylic paints. The chipping medium was only applied in spots where I wanted the peeling effect:
Several rust textures and several colors of rust pigment were used on this car as well. In the photo below, if you zoom in to the large rust spot, you see the result of a product called U Rust from MiG Ammo that looks like corroded rust:
The key is the fading, the different layers all blended together to get the final result seen below:
The Weathering Depot 
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