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Raw Umber weathering of my RS Sandie (photo heavy)


Cantina Craig
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Hi all.

Just a few pics and details of my first ever weathering job on my brand new RS armour - gulp!! Even though I cleared UKG and got Police Officer deployment no problem, I still felt that the weathering that RS supplied my kit with was pretty light overall, compared to some of the great looking troopers I see on here. And after looking back at my induction and first troop photos from last weekend, I didn't like the fact I was almost blending with TK's in certain shots.

So I decided to make the big decision to weather it myself. I read all the different ways you guys have done yours on here, and decided to go with the Raw Umber paint method. I mixed up a 1:1 diluted mix of paint and water and used that as an overall undercoat for each section of armour, painted on with a brush and then dabbed off with a rag in a circular motion. When it had dried a little more, I rubbed it to remove sections of it and repeated, this time almost flicking and whipping the rag at the paint on the armour. When I was happy with the randomness of the effect, I added pure Raw Umber to the creases on the armour where sand would naturally collect for a darker effect. I dabbed this off with a damp rag to add a 'smudginess' to make it blend more with the undercoat. I'm very happy with how my armour looks now, definitely has a more Tatooine trooped in look and one that I can't wait to troop with again in a couple of weeks.

Here's my armour as it was originally from RS, and underneath as it is now. :-)

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Started with the boots.

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Brushed on the diluted undercoat

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Rubbed it in with rag

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Applied neat Raw Umber and worked in to get a dirty look. I wanted the boots and bottom of shin armour to be my darkest looking areas to simulate standing around in sand and dirt :-)

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Contrast between newly weathered boots and original shins

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Looking better

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Applied to more bits of armour in the same way

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Showing everything weathered except chest,ab plate, back and helmet for contrast

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And then fully weathered all over :-)

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Thanks bro's, can't tell you how worried I was starting this job. But I absolutely loved doing it and would have happily started another one straight away after I finished this one , ha ha :-)

Great choice of weathering Pat ;-)

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