This is a comprehensive (how to) weather & paint tutorial based on a method I have developed over several decades of modeling and painting. Even though I still use oil paints for weathering, I primarily use acrylic paints due to the rapid dry time and the ability to read each filter, in it’s true color, before applying the next.
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Can we all take a moment to pause and salute the makers of the Vallejo bottles? Makes it sooo easy to just use a drop or two. Which it turns out is all you need most of the time. 👏👏
Learning you can thin Tamiya $o much i$ nice a$ well. 🙏✌️
Boomer, I wondered where that container had got to? It's carrying all my Christmas Goodies from Santa. Now it's sorted that truck driver better put his foot to the metal so I can stop pacing the floor. Cheers, Chris Perry
Hey Boomer, here's a hack I've used for giving the water-based acrylics a way better flow for airbrush as well as paint brush. I'll use a window cleaner (like windex) in the pump bottle and add it to the paint. Water based acrylics is a large molecule, the soap in the windex makes for a slippery molecule, Easy to shoot or use with a paint brush. A small amount 1 spritz in a airbrush bottle mixture works well. I've painted mural sky ceilings for yrs. , I mix 2-4 oz in a qt. , it makes superfine spray…just sayin, painting for 50 yrs😅
Awesome – Thank-you.
Men! Thats an awesome trailer. I love the roof of that thing!
Boomer, I am here for this course
Wow what another fantastic tutorial. Especially the emphasis on experimenting with paint ratios over paint by numbers. Real life is nothing but variations on a theme , thanks again.
Another great tutorial Boomer. Thanks Peter from downunder.
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Really good tutorial. Like they say, "High risk, High reward." I've got the perfect candidate for the trailer roof. I'm gonna throw caution to winds, let it dry, and see how it looks 😶🌫
A masterclass Boomer! You are the professor 🙂
👍👍👍Great video boomer
Can you please tell us what size needle as well as the air pressure you prefer to use? I'm just beginning to airbrush, and I'm definitely hooked on you're channel. Bravo to you Sir, for being an amazing host to the education of fine model railroading of art. Best regards from Western Washington.
Wow that looks great!!! What I learned yrs ago was the mess ups always looked the best. I really thought you wanted the roof like that. Great work!
Looks GREAT BUT You forgot to PAINT and weather the trailer AXLES !! lol their BARE STEEL still !!
You do a superb job of reinforcing “the reality of illusion = the illusion of reality “! 🫡Carry on! 👍✌️
Can you give us the color codes for the raw Tamiya paints that you have shown here?? Please…
Top, I like it very much. Great work.👍
Thank you for another wonderful tutorial!
I can only speak for myself, but I consider your videos, long or short, to be un-skippable content. Much like a Bob Ross painting video. There’s so much wisdom embedded in the words that any amount of fast forwarding risks losing crucial knowledge and information.
Great video. if, i do skip ahead, i will catch what i missed, on the 4th viewing (i watch them all mutiple times)
It's too bad breaking the landing gear .😢
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Another very comprehensive and instructive video, Boomer! One can't put a price on the knowledge you impart, but here's a contribution. Thanks as always for taking the time to plan and record these videos. Best wishes to you and your family for a happy, safe and peaceful holiday season! 🎄 🎨 🖌
Very informative Vlog, I was surprised to hear you don't shoot Vallejo model air in a air brush. Your paint kit was a plus to see, Thanks. Some time back you talked about IPA "pressure washing colors and the results you get are really great. I started out with scrap styrene painted it and "washed it" with IPA. Question, 70 or 99 to cut Tamiya?
Great video as usual. Could you give us the references of the paints you use please?
Boomer – beautiful job and fantastic instruction for those of us who are still working on developing our skills. As a former trucker, the only thing you forgot is the grey/black exhaust stains on the front right upper corner of the trailer. Look at all the trailers from the 60s/70s/80s and early 90s. It's there (unless it was an O/O trailer). Keep up the great work – cheers!
Boomer, thanks for the videos! These are really inspiring love your content
After watching all your video’s for two years I keep learning by watchting. Thanks for sharing your experience!
Great video. I have seen trailer with a very similar look on top where can see the ribbing on the roof, its just a part of the aging process. Thanks.
Why did they run out of the trailers so fast? It seems that there is no Reimer reason.
I‘d like to thank you for all your phantastic videos, Boomer. Learning all the cool stuff from your clips took my skills to a whole new level. I‘m particularly enthusiastic about your use of colors. And your methods are foolproof. The water on my layout for example is looking almost real. Cheers and all the best from Stuttgart, Germany.
Well Boomer, you've done it again – taken a really complex topic, and broken it down to simple elements. Now, if only they were so simply applied! I'll watch this one a few more times, but it's a real gem. Thank you for another amazing tutorial!
Yes yeeees master Boomer that's incredible may the holiday bring you more cheers!
Great advice ! Many thanks Maestro
Thanks for sharing boomer. One point id like to mention. Acrylics are great but you can't beat oils for the appearance of depth. Oils take your finish to the next level!
Hi. Would you recommend using the thin "fade white" solution on any color like green, yellow or black ?
I learned a lot from this video. I found this particular video very useful. I'm finding your results very repeatable and really imporve the metal roofs of my structures. Thank you!!!
You're a brilliant modeler, but please, buy some editing software
Can you substitute XF20 thinner for IPA?
I was a UPS tractor trailer driver for 41 years. I am super impressed with this model. The area around the tires has the leaf springs, shackles, brake cans. There are marker lights cast on at the top all the way around the trailer in the right spots. The legs and crank for them are accurate, and on the correct side of the trailer. The only thing I might suggest is to paint the area around the king pin black. The king pin is on the bottom of the trailer very near the front, and this is what your tractor hooks up to. The 5th wheel of the tractor is always greased up so it slides under the trailer. You could use the 5th wheel on your model to gauge how wide the streak would be, plus it would extend past the king pin about a foot or so. Great video.
I love long videos I get on YouTube for the content, I don't even watch television anymore so the more content the better!👍
Thank you for your knowledge. Although I'm not big on weathering, it's a good idea to knock down the colors on new models and you have one of the best methods I've seen.
Great, instructive video, as usual. I do have what might seem like a Dumb question;
What is this, "taco sauce," which you often reference? I've searched and all I get is actual taco sauce recipes.
You just know a puddle of water sat atop that trailer for about a million years…
…amazing as per your usual there, professor.
…and Happy Holidaze to you and your crew
Thanks!