One subject carries this entire series: how to put the marks of real service onto a model. Every issue of The Weathering Magazine is single-topic - one covers grey schemes, another greens, others abandoned machinery, desert environments or recycled materials. Alongside the main run there is a separate edition devoted to aircraft and a line of technical guides to individual methods. Below we explain how to choose an issue and what you will need to work from it.
THE WEATHERING AIRCRAFT 23 - Worn Warriors (English)
9.16 €
The Weathering Aircraft Issue 15. GREASE & DIRT (English)
9.96 €
THE WEATHERING TECHNICAL GUIDE 01 - Metalizowanie (Polish, Czech)
15.96 €
The Weathering Aircraft Issue 18. ACCESSORIES (English)
9.96 €
The Weathering Aircraft 12 - WINTER (English)
9.96 €
The Weathering Aircraft Issue 17. DECALS & MASKS (English)
9.96 €
Weathering is the stage that turns a cleanly sprayed model into a machine with a history: dust, running stains, chipped paint, rust, faded panels, marks left by crews. Each of those forms differently and is done with a different technique, which is why a long run of issues never exhausts the subject. A typical issue takes one theme across several models by different builders and shows the process photograph by photograph, including what goes wrong.
The main run works mostly with ground vehicles and dioramas; the separate aircraft edition works with aeroplanes. The difference is not cosmetic. Aircraft have large smooth surfaces and the dirt is fine and concentrated around exhausts, wheel bays and walkways. Armour methods transplanted onto an aircraft look wrong, and the reverse is equally true.
Many issues are named after a colour or the setting a machine operated in. That is a practical guide: building something in a grey scheme, you learn how such a surface behaves when soiled and how to get genuine unevenness without turning everything the same shade of dirty.
Some editions focus on a medium or a subject area - acrylics, stowage and accessories, decals and masks, display bases. These suit a builder who already knows which specific skill is missing.
Subjects to practise on sit in aircraft model kits and military vehicle kits, and the same ground at book length in modelling technique books.
