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Weathering Model Aircraft

by David W. Aungst

Sun Fading
This is a tough one. There are no easy ways to create this. I have tried two different ways to create this effect. The first involves "dusting" the entire upper surface with an extremely thin mixture of a light color (I used beige) during the shading step outlined above. This had the advantage of working on the entire model, decals and all. The down side was that it sort of looked like dust on the model, not fading.

A second way I have tried to do this involves mixing multiple shades of the camouflage colors, at least two or three shades of each color in graduated darkness levels. I applied the lightest shades to the upper areas of the model, the medium shades to the sides, and the darkest shades to the bottom areas. I carefully blended the colors with wide feathering patterns as I worked my way down the model sides. This looked much more like actual fading. The down side was that it is much more labor intensive. It also did nothing to fade the colors in the decals.

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