Rat rod rust tutorial with sponge

[lou s]

Rust paint job using water based paints and a sponge.easy to do with good results.never cover previous coat.if using a hair dryer it only takes about a half hour start to finish.

Step 1 primer

step 2 rust

step 3 light rust

step 4 orange rust

step 5 orange

step 6 blue

step 7 50-50 blue white

step 8 75-25 white blue

step 9 white

step 10 washes

bottom left dark rust,bottom right light rust,top rust,and streaks light rust.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 15, 2017 by lou s

[Ace-Garageguy]

GREAT JOB !!    THANKS !!

[Len Woodruff]

Wow!

[MeatMan]

Thanks Louie, much appreciated!!

[Roncla]

Thats a very well done tutorial Louie. As it is said a picture is  worth a thousand words. Thank you for sharing. 

[Foxer]

Great illustration of the technique!

[bobthehobbyguy]

Wow what a great tutorial. Thank you for taking the time to share your technique.

[modelfink]

Awesome tutorial! thanks for sharing

[Spex84]

That's killer dude Thanks for sharing your technique with such clear photos! Your experimentation and perseverance paid off bigtime.

 

[carrucha]

Cool tutorial.  Thanks for sharing!

[BigTallDad]

Great tutorial.

You used several shades of blue during the process; is this because you were weathering a blue model?

What if the model was a different color, let's say yellow?

[lou s]

I used different shades of blue to try and duplicate fading and weathering of the oringinal blue paint job. If you wanted to use on another base color like yellow I think you would use the same proses .start with the yellow and then lighten it up or dilute the yellow as you go to replicate a sun/ weather beaten paint job.

[Darren B]

very awesome thank you for sharing....

[vintagercr]

Awesome!  Thank you 

[thatz4u]

along these rusty lines, at Hobby Lobby in the craft paint section I came across a rust kit by Folk Art brand, 2 bottles in blister pak, $9.99, might try it sometime....