Crackle Medium for Instant Aging

Wow, that's cool stuff!

@Sarah posted:

Wow, that's cool stuff!

OH My Gosh! Thanks Sarah! This was inspired by your CB&Q SM-16 stock car project. I just didn’t use hairspray technique. Planning that for the barrels in the kit.

That looks fantastic!  I was really trying to figure out how to make my Plasticville Log Cabin look old and realistic.  The bright shiny uniform brown plastic logs just look silly.    I think a base coat of dark gray, followed by the Crackling medium is exactly the answer I was looking for.

Thanks for the posting.

Mannyrock

That's really awesome! I didn't know something like that even existed. I will keep it in mind.

I've used it on real wood projects to antique tables, etc., but never thought of using it for o scale - great idea.

There once was a line of G scale structure kits that included a crackle/peeling paint finish set of tips.  They used common rubber cement as the medium between under- and over-coats of paint.  They had you brush it over the pre-painted (undercoated...grayish brown) siding in a random/spotty manner.  Once the top coat (white, cream, ...any color, etc.) was applied and dry you rubbed the surface to loosen and brush off the rubber cement areas/spots to give the same deteriorated paint finish.

Worked pretty well, but like anything else in the area of weathering, aging, finishing, practice helps and improves future results...IOW, be not dismayed!   I suppose the same would apply to this new product. 

FWIW...

KD