Painting Tamiya's 1/35 Scale German Fuel Drums

hey fellas i'm going to paint some fuel drums the guys that i'm building these series i'm such an idiot the guy that i'm building these uh the series of um 32nd scale german jets for he uh he had sent me these afv club 135th scale fuel drums and uh i finished those up and i posted some or i had some included those pictures with the last build that i did on the comet and i had a couple people ask me to show how i painted those well fortunately the guy had sent me some more fuel drums to build and paint and these are tamiyas i don't like them as much because they they're they're a lot easier to put together than the afv club ones these uh these come in halves and you have to put them together but then you have a seam line the afv club fuel drums they come in three different sections uh three different like circular tube type sections and you just put them together and there's no seam line clean up so and it's not like you have to be real particular with cleaning up seam lines on these because you're gonna be weathering it and making them nasty anyway so that's what we're going to do i'm going to paint them up and weather them and and there are a thousand different ways to do this and you know it's just experiment and see what see what works best for you you can use salt method for chipping you can use i mean there's just a number of different ways to do it but i'm going to show you an easy way to do it that i like on stuff like this especially on things that you have to build a lot of so i'm not going to worry about like doing chipping fluid or anything like that all my chipping is going to be done with sponges and i think that's the best way to go on something like this where you kind of have an assembly line type situation so let's get on the video all right fellas let's take a look at what we got going on so as you can see i've already primed these with mr servicer 1500 in gray and then i took some black and i did some pre-shading along the ribs the top and the bottom now next what i'm going to do is i've got some like a real dark rust color mixed up in my airbrush and i just i've got let's see i've got this rust mixed up it was uh some brown mixed with red and a little bit of black and then i just darkened it up with some black so i've got a real dark color and what i'm gonna do now is i'm just going to spray both ends with this rust color with this real dark color because these are the ends that are going to catch the water and become most rusty so i'm just going over each one of these and spraying just the ends with this real dark rusty color just like so and you don't have to be neat if you get some on the sides it's no big deal because we're gonna we're gonna be painting these we're going to be doing a lot of weathering so it's really hard to mess these up and since we're doing so many it's always good to have some variation anyway so all right i'll go ahead and finish the rest of these off camera but you get the idea just uh each end with this rusty dark rusty color and uh see in a sec alrighty so now what i'm gonna do next i'm gonna go ahead and throw some color down so i'm gonna do these over here in the dark yellow and then these in the red and white now i've already sprayed the center white and i've masked that area off and uh i'm gonna use for the dark yellow dark yellow xf60 and then obviously i'm gonna use the red but then i've also got some orangish color that i've mixed up um previously and i'm going to use that and we'll i'll show you how i'm going to use that here in a little bit but uh so i've got these separated and we'll go ahead and spray the yellow first now on these barrels you've got the top with a i think that's called a bung hole i don't know if you've ever watched beaverson butthead really says tp from my bunk hole but uh you've got the top and the bottom now i'm not going to spray any on the bottom because that's where it's going to get the most rust because it's uh next to the moisture on the ground so i'm not even gonna mess with that and for the top what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna come in the center and i'm just gonna spray some in the center kind of haphazardly just like so on each one of these [Music] i might have got my paint mixed up a little thick [Music] and then again this doesn't have to be perfect because we're going to do some more rust effects we're just spraying the top here getting a little color thrown down just like so and then when i come back i'll do the same thing with the red now i'm going to let these dry a little bit because i'm gonna have to grab them by the ends so i didn't drill any holes to to hold up with toothpicks that have been a lot easier but i'm just i'll do this by hand because i can actually grab on the ends and grab on the sides just depending on how i'm painting but i do have to let that dry so we'll let that set up okay so now i'm going to paint the sides and like i said i'm going to grab them by i dropped something i dropped them i'll just grab them by the ends here and then i can paint them this way and i don't have to worry about i do got this mixed a little thin but i think it'll be okay now you don't want to mix your paint so thick that it covers up all your appreciating you want a lot of that to show through because we're going for dirty grimy weathered so i got this mixed about right i think um i didn't really measure it out but i'm guessing this is probably maybe 70 percent paint wait no 70 percent thinner to 30 percent paint somewhere around there and that way i can gradually build it up [Music] alrighty so these have had a good chance to dry so now what i'm going to do is i'm going to do some sponge work but it's not going to be the rust color yet what i'm going to do is i'm going to break up some of this color and give a little bit different color variation by using some of my dark yellow and some white so i'm just going to take my pipette that had the stuff that i airbrushed now it is pretty thin and it's got thinner in it so you really have to be careful when you do it this way because what will happen is if you go over the same spot more than once you're likely to start dabbing up the paint because it this is the same paint that i used underneath and i don't have any protective layer on it so you really don't want to go over this more than once now i've got some foam here and i'm just going to break off a little piece and i'm going to put it in my clampy tweezers just like so so i'm going to get a little bit on here and i'm going to dab most of it off and i'm just going to come along and just try to break up some of that color and this is going to dry a lot lighter than than what it shows right here or a lot more translucent so it's just going to give a little bit different color variation just like so and you want to be and what i like to do with these is you know i'll put some down and then i'll twist it and turn it so i don't have the same pattern of my sponge and maybe i'll use different sides of the sponge to do it and that's going to give a little bit of a speckled look to it and it doesn't take much i don't want to be pressing real hard when i do this just try to be random and this is fun for me i like this kind of stuff i really think it's fun i like sponging i'm a spongy type guy and you don't see me going over the same spot more than once because i don't want to be lifting up any of that paint underneath not that it's really going to make that much of a difference on this but just as a general rule okay whoa get too much see i got too much on there it's okay some can be more than others this one's just going to be a little a little more speckled which is fine it's all good it's all good got a little bit of a spot there on this one where my my glove touched it that's okay whoa look at that oh man i'm just making mistake after mistake but there are no mistakes and if it gets if you don't like it you can always take your airbrush and touch it up and and cover up that your what you think are mistakes i think they're fine all right now with the red color instead of mixing the red with white what i like to do is mix it with yellow so i've already got some mixed up it's a a bright orange now you got to be careful with this because it can look kind of dorky so i've got a new uh piece of foam and i'm just going to go around do the same thing but with the orange color and just make that look this doesn't show up as well at first on the red but when you look closely there is a difference it may not initially show up but it just tones down that red and gives it that little bit of variation like it's weathered metal and i'm not using a lot just like so my kids up there are again with my wife apparently she doesn't like mornings i don't think okay yeah there's my other one yelling i don't know what my kids problem with mornings are i think i just got spoiled little bratty kids okay almost done with this one and then we can move on to rusty stuff and that's always fun all right all right what we're going to do now is i'm going to uh i'm adding some rust and i'm using ammo mig's rust effects now this is a i believe it's a water-based acrylic so and i'm going to sponge this on so i don't have to worry about it lifting up any of my tamiya paint underneath because i think that to me is like an alcohol-based acrylic maybe but it's not going to lift it up so i've got a lot of leeway now this comes with a range of colors and i'm using the darker color which is a chipping fluid or the chipping chipping color the old rust which is a more brown and then the medium or dark rust which has got more of an orange in it probably need to put some more of this in here on my pallet so you can see i've already worked on a couple of them and what i like to do is i like to work from dark to light so i'm going to start with the chipping color which is this uh real dark brown here and i got my sponges so let's get a little bit of this dark brown which is my chipping color i'm going to come along the top here where we had sprayed the uh the yellow up here and this stuff does dry rather quickly and i'm just gonna go along the edge and along the edge down here especially along the bottom where it's going to get more more rusty where it's in contact with the ground just try to keep it random kind of like i did before i move my thing around come along the edges here and it's okay if you get it where you don't did where you didn't necessarily intend it to be because it's fine okay now i'm going to come back with the old rust which is the more brown a little bit on there dab a lot of it off and let's see we'll come in here and add a little bit of this brown just like so it's a beautiful day here fellas okay now i'm gonna take some of the orange rust or the the more orangey stuff which is the they call it dark rust and i want to be i want to use i don't want to like i basically want to use this as a highlight color i'm going to come along the edge so i assume the orangey is like a more newer rust so i don't want to put a lot of this on there i just want to add a little bit of highlights like it's a little bit newer now we are going to come back and use some oil paints and stuff and do some washes and uh so this isn't the final final step i guess could be if that's where you want to go but all right just like that okay so i'm gonna get on with let's add a little bit of more orange stuff up here whoa all right maybe a little bit brown in there as well guys so it's fun because you just kind of play with it there we go it's kind of cool so i'm going to get on with um adding my rust just on the edges here and there just to get where you know just whatever looks right to me at the time and then i'll put a clear coat on it and then we'll come back and do some oil work all right what i'm doing now is i'm doing an oil wash so i've got some oil paint put in here and i'm using sepia which is a dark brown type of oil paint and i've got some mineral spirits over here and i'm basically just thinning this down and making a wash out of my oil paint and you can see here it's kind of glossy because i put a protective clear coat over it using pledge floor care or future for you guys that are old school and uh i'm just gonna smear this all over and then once it dries i'm gonna wipe away and it's gonna stay in the crevices and give it just a grimy look which is what i'm going for since these are going to be outside and they're not well maintained they're not well taken care of so this is going to be a pretty simple part and all this actually is actually pretty simple i mean there's no no rocket science to this so we'll just do a couple here and see this goes pretty quickly uh the the the uh i do like to let this stuff dry before i try to wipe it away and we'll come back and i'll show you how it how easily it wipes away and and how you can manipulate it and and uh play with it for some of you new guys that have never done washes before now with acrylics because i know i got a lot of guys are newer back in there back in the hobby from being gone from in a long time you can you can put these enamels or oil paints over top of most acrylics so this is why i use this pledge fork here now i could have probably not done this but uh i don't i really wanted a glossy finish as well because i don't want this to be totally stained if i if i put this over a flat coat it's just a lot harder to remove and it's going to it's going to really change the color and i don't necessarily want to change the color that much i just want to add a little bit of dirt and grime and highlight some of those recesses with this uh with a with a darker sepia color so i'm just smearing it all over here and because it is a nice dry day windy day i've got the window open it shouldn't take too long for this to dry there we go not being neat with it and i can touch it it's not going to hurt anything i do have my gloves on because i don't want my fingers all stained but that's pretty much it now once these dry we'll come back and i'll wipe it off and i'll show you how easy that is and we'll move on to the next step all right now that they've had a chance to dry i've been working on them a little bit i'm just gonna take a q-tip and i'm gonna go along and just start cleaning up some of these open areas right here and it gives it a nice grungy dirty look where it almost fades into into the recessed areas here and just gives a little bit more depth a little bit more grunge a little bit more dirt and i just like the look of it sometimes that's all that matters and then we'll come along the top i'm just going to try to wipe away the majority of it here in the middle so we get it fading out and we got a nice dark area around the top get a new q-tip start wiping this away leaving just a little bit along the edges it's not as noticeable in this darker red but all these colors will lighten once i throw a flat coat on there they should all lighten and all this all this work we're doing should pop out and look pretty cool i see some of that still isn't dry in there no big deal and we can actually leave some of it if we want leave a little bit more on some and take a little bit more off others this is going to give a really really dirty grungy look and then on the top what i'm going to do is i'm just going to wipe away what's in the center and leave it real dark around the edges on this one just wipe some of that away now once i'm done with this i'm going to go ahead and throw a flat coat on it i probably won't do any more i like the way these are looking now i could come in with some rust colors and some streaking but i don't i don't think i'm going to do that with these but i will come back in with some fuel stains and i'm going to add some some different sheens to this like some of the fuel is is leaked out and play with that a little bit so i will throw a flat coat on these as soon as i'm done and then we'll hit it with that uh with some fuel stains all right fellas i'm going to add a little bit of pigment to the the bottom of these barrels so i've got them flat coated and i've got some pigment here and what i'm using is ammo mig dark earth pigment and i've just got a little bit in my cup and i'm going to go along the bottom and i'm going to brush this on liberally and i don't care if it falls off i'm not really i'm going to be adding some pigment fixer to this and it gives it a nice little effect because these are going to be these will get more dirty along the bottom here where they're sitting in the dirt so then i'll take some pigment fixer from ammo mig as well and i'm just going to go along and get some pigment fixer on there i don't want to brush it i'm just applying it just like so like that set this aside here's one that's already dried and we'll compare it and because we have a lot going on it's not something that's going to stand out immediately but it just adds a little bit more depth to our our little creation here so we'll go ahead do it again and i just like this dark earth it uh it's kind of a muddy muddy old rusty type pigment and again i am not brushing it because i don't want to wipe away the pigment i just want to fix it and it'll it'll kind of crawl and move around and it'll automatically become random make sure i got the bottom here okay all right so that's that once those dry then i will come back and i've got some fuel stains and fresh engine oil so we'll uh see what these do to it and um i think we should be done after that all right well i keep uh i keep adding stuff so what i'm going to do now is i'm just going to have to add a hint of metallicness with uh some ushi vander ross and powder now you can use this you could probably use some graphite or uh like gunmetal pigment but i like the sushi van der rosten stuff so i've got a little makeup applicator because in my spare time i like to put makeup on and look pretty look pretty for you guys so i'm just gonna get most of it off here you don't need much now when you do this this has to be the final step you can't uh you can't be putting a clear coat over top of this so just along the edges on some of these barrels i'm going to take this and i'm going to rub this in so there's just a hint of it being metallic like it was worn through the rust like maybe somebody handled it or something and just on certain areas and it's going to give that little extra hint that it's metal do it on this one as well this will probably show up more because this is a little this is a little darker just rubbing it in and not the whole thing just on some parts of it now i still am going to add the fuel stains but i'm going to avoid the uh the area especially around the edges here i'm not going to put and if i do it's fine it just it uh it'll just go over top of it and i mean you just can't you once you put this on you can't put any clear coats on it uh you don't want to put pigment fixer on this it doesn't work so it's just kind of a little uh last minute thing that i like to do with with a lot of my my rusty weathered stuff just like so just in a couple different spots and uh maybe right down here on the bottom just like that okay and so yes fuel stains are up next okay so now i'm gonna add some fuel stains and what's neat about this is that it dries glossy so as you can see it's kind of a uh it almost looks like caramel and this might be a little old so it's a little thick so i'm just going to thin it down a bit and i'm just going to come around on certain just some of these i probably won't do them all and just add a little bit of this like it's seeped out on here right around the bung hole it's like that and add a little bit thinner now this is enamel so um i can use this over top acrylic of the acrylic and it's not going to affect my acrylic paint now on these where they're sideways i'm going to come in here like it's uh dripped out and ran down in fact i may need to thin it out a little bit more to get it to to look like it's run run down the side maybe so it's just gonna dry glossy just like that hopefully unless this is like super old i've also got the fresh engine oil which is actually just a little bit darker so that's the kind of look you get now when that dries it's just gonna it's gonna have a different sheen and it's it's just gonna add a little bit more interest to the uh to our little fuel drum art creation so i'm gonna get on with uh doing a couple more of these and then that'll be it uh hopefully this helps you out and like i said there are a thousand ways to do this and you can go all out and do a bunch of chipping fluid and all that stuff but for this purpose i think these uh this will suffice so i'll flash up a bunch of pictures when we're done and thanks for watching fellas [Music] you

Channel: Primedmodelworks

Views: 25,063

Keywords: primed, model, works, scale, german, fuel, drums, painting, rust, tutorial, plastic, tamiya, 1/35, 1/32, diorama

Id: uIN49_mVBmY

Length: 32min 59sec (1979 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 19 2020