Mali rebels (I think). Thanks
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On this Tamiya Sdkfz.222 for the field applied mud camo I used a heavy application of Tamiya Weathering Master.
The stuff in the little flip top casing on the bottom here.
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To be economic, you can use a medium consistency acrylic modeling paste (maybe thin a bit with water as needed), you can use either clear or white, it doesn’t matter as you will be adding acrylic coloring to the mix. Use the same acrylic paint as you used to color the groundwork. Roughly daub it on the model with an old brush.
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I probably could use real dirt.
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My starter wife used to use a tube of mud on her face. I used it on a coupe of models around 1990 or so. The way it cracked was a really cool effect. I just had to repaint it becuase it turned a little too pink when it dried,
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I think @Biggles50 may have been refering to this:
Great stuff. Much more affordable than “hobby” pastes, and you can add whatever you want to it: Pigments, paint, saw dust, sand, soil from the garden…
OR Liquitex Matte Medium would work well too. Happy mudding!
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Thanks, I’ll have to look for it.
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That’s the stuff! I also use clear gloss for making sea dio’s. There’s other brands, and some art supply stores have their own home brand. It’s pretty much all the same.
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After digging thru my paints, I find that I do have their matte finish. I just tried dabbling it on a paint mule and we will see what it looks like tomorrow.
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I have seen it in a great modeler video (Night Shift Modeler making a French tank, I think) and based on what saw, used this on my Austin armored car bottom sections. I believe you can also use it all around the vehicle but never tried.
Probably can be diluted too, but please check it out on the official website.
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Starter wife?
my 2nd wife likes to say “Practice wife”
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I would not recommend using ANY of the products described above unless you first test a given product on something else and make sure it produces the desired result. People are making suggestions without having actually tried the products. I do not see a single picture or video of someone who accomplished the goal you seek. That means you are heading off the map where they have not gone. Here be dragons stuff. Some of those products may produce the desired result but you will not know until you experiment. It will very probably require a combination of the correct product AND the correct application technique AND practicing that technique to succeed.
Be careful.
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Even if they accepted a product recommendation, since this would be the first time they’ve done something like this, experimenting on a throwaway object is always advisable, if only to learn how to apply a particular coating to a model to get the effect they want and how it works for coloration. For example, Liquitex modeling paste is dead white, and adding even a dark brown to it produces a very pale coating that doesn’t resemble actual dirt very well, and while painting it afterward gets you a good color, doing that with an irregularly-applied and patchy coating would be absurdly finicky. I’ve used their coarse texture paint on bases I’d glued a 3D print to for a Heroscape terrain object, and gave up trying to tint the paste and just overpainted it once it was dry.
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A left-field idea, reverse the process. Cake the whole vehicle with a paste comprising the right colour-mix of cheap kids’ powder-paint, and when totally dry gently stab at it with a small stiff bristle brush (end of an old toothbrush?) keep dipping it in water between stabs. Variations in the remaining mud colour can be added later with a dilute blackish or darker brown wash.
If it doesn’t work wash it all off & try again, or something else. (Edit) An example of what I mean - on the rear panel in particular I over-did the mud recipe on purpose and scaled it back using the method I described above. Water-solubility gives great latitude for error & correction…
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You are correct in that they are only (friendly) suggestions (for experimentation). I am curious though, how do you know if the suggested products have or have not been used by the suggesters? Ouch. That’s a pretty harsh accusation. For my self, I have used what I have suggested, and it would absolutely have been helpful to upload photos but I don’t document my builds. I offer my sincere apologizes; my post was not intended to provoke such a passionate response.
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Since you bring it up I had the same thought, I almost always have used what I recommend - in this case mud mask and make-up sponges.
I also make suggestions about techniques that I have actually used, while others often throw out ideas for the sake of it, even suggesting things I have successfully done (repairing a hole in an air compressor with a screw) won’t work, although they themselves have not tried it. And often ignoring science to boot. You just have to hope you’re helpng some people,
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It definitely makes sense to try it out on a test mule of some kind, or even a scrap of plastic card painted in the base coat you plan to use. I used dark mud colored oil paint from 502 Abteilung on my M4 (105).
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I appreciate all the comments and have experimented with a few ideas .
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