Working on some weathering at the moment. I decided to try something a little different this time. On the recent metals I've done, I've started with undercoats of different colors (black, purple, brown, and rust). Then I've stippled on the metals. The undercoat shows through in spots and creates some subtle effects. However, in this case I planned on doing a very corroded metal. So I decided to start with some pre-weathering. I laid down a dark purple base and then applied rust and veridgris shades. After that was done, I applied the metal through stippling. I tried to let those undertones show through, especially at cracks or crevices. You can see these first two stages below.
Then I went back over with the rust and verdigris shades and did another round of weathering. I covered up most of the metal. I also went to the brightest shades of the rust and verdigris colors I've got (the Secret Weapon Miniatures weathering acrylics). In the end, was the pre-weathering necessary? I'm not sure. I like to think those undertones helped build up an effect, create more a history, blah blah blah. But hard to say for sure.
Just a little view showing the inside of the left pauldron. Put a mottled pattern of rust with some metal still showing through here and there. Mostly this is to show the armor on his back. One of the difficulties with this sculpt is figuring out what some of the things are supposed to be (or at least what they could possibly be). The box art only shows the front of the figure, so hard to tell what Latorre did with this section. It feels a little like the material on his forearms... but not quite. After chatting with a friend, I'm leaning towards treating it as extremely corroded metal. There are some rivets down the center and a detail at the top which would fit with a piece of metal. Plus, it's a piece covering his upper body, so armor/metal makes sense. It's the best interpretation I've come up with, so unless something else comes to mind, that's what I'll be doing with it.
Amazing
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