Battle Damage

[edson]

Hi guys I would appreciate if you can share with me your ways to do a good battle damage, so ????? :lol: (like fenders,tracks,rust etc.)

Regards
Ed

[KingTiger]

Hey Edson.

Battle damage advice from me to someone else is a touchy subject. If its not done to your expectations then it might not come out right and ruin a perfectly good model.

For fenders: you can try a little heat on the fenders and bend them using a pencil eraser or a bigger eraser. Never use you fingers for your fingerprints will show on the soft heated plastic.
For rust: You can use rust colored paint or rust/earth toned pastels. If you intend to use dullcote to seal your work, use a lot of pastels since the dullcote will make it look like you didn't use anything.
Projectile hit: I bore out a hole that measures the same diameter as the weapon projectile used. Then I make it jagged and add cuts away from the hole to show cracks in the armor from the hit. You can then silver and rust it to your liking to show the bare metal and time its been there with the battle damage.

I hope I was able to help.

KingTiger

[edson]

Thanks for the tips, buddy, it will be very useful info.

Cheers
Ed :lol:

[panzerfaust]

Look here

[TreadHead]

Howdy edson,

First, welcome to the site! Now, as to your query about "battle damage". My suggestion to you would be to try a more specific question. Meaning, an 88mm hit to the side sponson armour of a Sherman M4A3, or .50 caliber hits to the stand-off armour of a StugIII, or road mine damage to the tracks of an M113.
I don't mean to be 'A' type about it, but each instance has it's specific techniques (at least for me ).

Tread.

BTW, KingTigers suggestions are all good ones!

[edson]

Thanks James for the link, is cool.

And Gordon, Im working on a little proyect "Tiger Aces" my idea is build a Tiger 1 with it crew, and of course, if we have a Tiger Ace, we have battle damage... so thats the point, what you think?

Regards
Ed :lol:

[nfafan]

Of course there are always the missing fenders trick, easiest in the book.

And for those damaged but present sheet metal fender areas, grind away as much of the plastic from underneath the fenders as possible, then dent away or "pick" the small arms or shrapnel holes.
Else, try to duplicate the sheet metal part - fenders, roundish exhaust covers on the back of a Tiger I - with foil or sheet lead. Easier to dent and damage.

[barron]

Thanks for that link.

[franck]

well, this is a pretty vast subject.

to try to be as quick as possible when times come to damage a kit i generaly try to replace the damaged parts by some new ones made from lead foil. (see my vbench of the kubel for that) it is easy then to bend them realistically.

when it comes to direct hits you will definitely have to know what round hit the vehicle as each one have its own "signature" (it's even more evident with modern warfare)

hope this helps

Franck