Comments on: Tutorial: Weathering Vehicles with Marmite

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By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:48:59 +0000

Sounds like a promising technique Ooogi. I imagine you get quite an interesting final texture. Might give it a try!

By: Ooogi

Ooogi — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:13:31 +0000

I currently use table salt and hair spray with wonderous results. Base coat of bright red followed by some watered down brown gives a rusty splochy effect. After the base coat is good and dry I use aresol hair spray on the model and then apply salt from a shaker to the hair spray. After it dries I apply the top coat of paint via spray can. Again after drying I just rub off the salt with my fingers or use an blade to get the hard to reach spots. The results are very random and very convincing. Initially I tried a brush with water to remove the salt and found that just rubbing it off worked just as well.

By: ethical

ethical — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:47:59 +0000

ok damm just re read the above – sorry it if for FOW stuff , its just that it looked larger in the picture.

Ethical goes hides his head in shame…

By: ethical

ethical — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:46:36 +0000

would this work with smaller FOW vehicles or are they just to small to get the effect.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:00:14 +0000

I can also recommend mustard as masking fluid.

for more jagged edges take some masking tape and go crazy with your X-acto knife. Apply the “decals” were appropriate and apply the top coat. remove the tape and you’ll have some nice flaking paint chips effects. This works best with bigger models, however.

By: Gobbo

Gobbo — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:42:48 +0000

Marmite is available from Amazon.com at $5.49 USD online.

http://www.amazon.com/Marmite-125g/dp/B00014VTNW

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:28:38 +0000

perhaps trying selica sand might work to I feel an experiment coming on :)

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:16:28 +0000

Salt is an interesting idea, but does it mask well? I guess you’d probably get a nice stippling effect where it didn’t anyway which would add to the effect.

One concern with using salt is I wonder if it could effect your spray paint at all? Would caster sugar work in a similar fashion but be potentially less of a problem with paint?

By: Tankred

Tankred — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:00:32 +0000

Great! Thank you very much, I will try it next month. In my home town frankfurt, there is a shop which sells Marmite! So soon I can compare Nutella with Marmite in a painting challenge…

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:06:50 +0000

Great tutorial!

Although I’ve seen Vegemite in the US, another option is to use popcorn salt that is very-very slightly dampened to stick to the model. Popcorn salt is really just finely-ground salt, so you could even make your own.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:29:59 +0000

Bravo I know some Panzer who are about to have a delicious marmite bath :)