painitng stains/dirt on clothes

[godfather]

I was very impresed D. Ruina's templar knight but more so by the subtle dirt blood stains etc. Could you folks share your techniques for applying dirt to clothes?

 

[Tarok]

I have recently started using MIG pigments to simulate dust and dirt.

That's about all i got...

RR

 

[billyturnip]

I've used artists pastels shaved to dust with a craft knife and painted onto my figures with an old brush.

roger.

 

[mertenspeter]

I used to do the pastelchalk to, i rubt it on a piece of sandpaper, but now like Tarot i use the MIG pigments you can mix them to get different chades of dust and to make mud i have beeing expirementing on mixing the dust with several varnisches from flat thru satin to clear. Try it out it gifs very good different result to resembles mud, wet ore dry.

Peter

 

[bwildfong]

Hey guys,

This may sound really old school (but then again, so am I !) but I've found nothing better than the oils that I use for painting the rest of the figure. You can mix an unlimited variety of shades, and blend them while on the figure into a beautifully subtle staining, dusting or whatever.

I often wait until the basic uniform colours are (absolutely) dry, which keeps the "weathering" from picking up blues, greens or reds from the wet uniform colours.This allows me to use a thinner-moistened brush to remove anything that looks wrong without damaging the underlying colours.

Or conversely, I'll take my "dust" colour (usually some combination of raw umber, white, burnt sienna, black and other earthy tones) and blend them into the still-wet highlight areas on the uniform, boots, etc. which tones the highlights down for another stained effect.

Hope this is of some assistance.

Cheers,

Brian