Freak Nasty Fester Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 I'm curious if people do weather them or leave them as is. If they weather them is it the same method with hair spray and fullers earth or something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairball2 Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Must be weathered, Fuller earth hairspray works great, and some water downed acrylic to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconoclasta_88 Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Weathered!!! Also, aged. Specially the pouches. To mod the pouches you can do it with very different techniques depending on the material. But the overall objective is to make them look used and as if they had seen a lot of action in harsh enviroments... The idea is to make them look real, of course. For leather pouches, you can soften and even shrink to some point the leather with warm water and rolling them up and down. Do not use too hot water or the pouches will shrink and become unusable. Let them dry after molding with a wood block inside so they can get the shape of the mags... You can use a wooden spoon to make the leather take the shape of the "mags". Here is where the moderate shrinkage due to warm water is welcome. For canvas, you can dye them and then also make them soft with warm water... and let them dry the same way as leather ones. Onces they are dry, you can kick them around (both leather or canvas), rub them into concrete, sand the edges and get a lot of dirt over them WITH the wooden mags inside... this for a natural old look. Also, the canvas ones can be painted to give them the look of old oil accumulating on it. Oil from the mags of course... Use the search engine on the forum. Many different techniques to achieve different results. Here is a picture of my pouches brand new and after weathering, so you get an idea... Green Canvas MP38/40 pouches from IMA-USA.com Black Leather MP40 Pouches from Zaddok's run After the shaping and aging, I used a sandpaper to make them look old, also cut little holes on the canvas one and sanded it to make a few threads appear around them, and finally kicked them around in a concrete floor and on the dirt to make it look old and dirty... Hope it helps... Saludos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sandtrooper Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I'm getting ready to start weathering my pauldrons and pouches. What is the diameter of the circle on the orange pauldron? I think it was speculated to be sticker residue of some kind on the original. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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