Faded paint work

[CJSomerset]

Is there anything I can put onto good paint work to make it look faded (the more the better) I've seen a vid by a train modeller who was spraying white over brand new rail coaches and it made them look really faded. But when I tested it, it just looked like bad overspray

And what about decals? I'd like to give then a sun bleached look?

Thanks as always.

[gustavlekstal]

What color is the base coat? A filter is good for fading. About 1 part oilpaint 10 parts thinner on satin or 1 part oilpaint 20 parts thinner on matt surface.
For green a yellow tone is good for fading
For dark yellow a light tan color is good for fading
For grey a light grey blue is good for fading.

Another is oildot fading. Dots of oilpaint stomped with a damp brush.

[psydeviant]

i add a drop of sunny skin tone to the colour im using , it lightens it just a tad , add more or less to get varying tones

[JayBrd]

I've used thinned matte clear with a very slight amount of white, or light grey like a wash and sprayed it with good success. It gives a good oxidized and faded paint look.

[RobertK]

I like using Tamiya Buff for fading, dust or as a highlight for warm colours if I'm in in a hurry. It works alot better than pure white, at least for me!

[Chip1942]

I use diluted vallejo acrylic paints as filters and washes to begin fading then follow on with 502 abteilung oils to complete the fading using colors appropriate for the models color scheme, for me its very effective, hope this helps

Regards Chip

[rubegoldberg]

light colored pastels are also useful.

[digger303]

true-earth claim that you can do it in one pass using their products which are water resin based. ALTHOUGH for me that is an expensive option at 5 pounds delivered per bottle and of course the learning curve. I have some of their stuff , but haven't used it yet.

[pmarshall]

The true-earth panel faders work well - just spray very light layers and let them dry between coats building up slowly.
They do last ages so they aren't too bad.

However the simplest way is to use oils to 'dot' filter panels selectively and has the advantage of better control (though takes a lot longer).

I normally vary the pre-shading to get the effect I want - I did no post shading / fading on my recent Hun at all, but quite a lot of pre-shading with different colours to get the effect.

[Baardmans]

I second the dot filter method.
I tried a dot filter with lighter colors for the first time on my KV1......
And now I have an extremely! faded tank.

[CJSomerset]

Thanks for all the renewed interest in this post. The model in question is long since finished but I enjoyed doing it so much that I'm now doing another "wrecked" aircraft. Can any one point me at a video that covers using pastels or this dot filter method.

[inso]

Here's one from Coen, he might have a more recent video of it, but this is quite good:

Another: