Originally posted by macleod01
[...]Now all it needs is weathering. HTF do you do that?! I have no idea!, apart from one idea. But any advice would be good. Thanks bud
I know you posted this on the squad forum, but a lot of skinners have asked this, and there are a lot of folks here than can help you aside from myself.
Weathering usually takes up half the layers I put on a skin, maybe a bit less than half, but many!
For the details you want stains, streaks, smoke clouds, for gas caps, oil drips, and exhaust pipes, and what-not. Things to think of: smudges around access panels, scuffs by the pilot walk areas, gunsmoke residue by wing guns, dirt or mud splashes by the wheels, and any number of things you want.
For the most part it is just creating a new layer and painting the color you want where you want it, then changing the opacity and the blending. Try different brushes if you're not happy with the effect.
For general weathering, you need to break up the solid-color-pixel area of all your camouflage. Some of us skinners employ a type of "dirt cloud" -- that when reduced in opacity and blended properly is very subtle but breaks up the color patterns and adds to the look of the finished skin.
