MMP Powders?

[wrestlerguy21]

Anyone know about MMP powders? They are a weathering powder that creats a rust/dusty/mud ect look. I don\'t know anything about them and if they will work for mini painting as they are shown on larger models. If someone knows of an article with photo\'s that would be great because I don\'t want to buy them if they arn\'t going to work well.

 

[mattsterbenz]

one of the new white dwarfs (and maybe on the gw site) had an article on creating the marneus calgar land raider, and they used that stuff to weather it. there might be info on where they got it.

i know its not much of a help, but its something...

matt

 

[ajthomas]

This page HERE has links to a couple of reviews and how-to\'s for MMP Powders. This is also the web site to order them direct from the Manufacturer. I got the full set of powders from them back in my Scal Modelling days and I love them, they were great for weathering vehicles and I have seen some great results of people using them to weather militarys figures to simulate dirt, dust, soot and especially mud when mixed with white glue or artist medium paste. I haven\'t tried them yet myself on mini scale figures so I can\'t comment on their usefulness there.

Hope this helps.

- Adam.

 

[freakinacage]

i think you can just use chalk if you find the right tone and fix it with varnish. thats what they used of the wd landraider. didn\'t that look lovely. i refuse to accept that the text can be painted on by hand - it was perfect.

*edit* looking at that article, i seems as if you can use ordinary chalks mixed with acrylic paint to get that sort of effect (goes down shop to buy chalks!)

 

[Treadhead]

generally its best to use chalk pastels rather than regular chalk... and pastels come in every shade youll ever need... just grind or sand them nice and finely...

 

[tidoco2222]

I don\'t know about MMP but I\'ve used MIG and they are excellent for weathering vehicles and buildings, alterantely you can use chalk powder but it needs to be sealed if you want to handle it.

 

[Brokenblade]

The land raider feehand was printed transfers which were later painted and then weathered, i knew it had to be too good to be true, i\'ve just bought some \"scenic rust\" which is basically a load of chemicals you mix together and paint onto a model, which then developes into a rustlike appearence, i used it on a test model and in my opinion it looked crap, a big waste of 15 quid, i\'ll try it again and see if it works any better, i might have a go at chalk pastils though, seems very simlpe but effective.

 

[Trevor]

I like using pastels.

Word of warning DO NOT get the waxy ones, you want the dusty powdery ones.

 

[wrestlerguy21]

Cool sounds like some good stuff. I was thinking of using a soot color on the exhaust tubes on some warjacks (warmachine). Still not sure , I might just use some good old layering but I was trying to save time due to it being army quality.

 

[Klute]

The rust on this was done with the Mig powders.

The powder is just a pigment and is very fine. I brushed it on dry but it wets up easy for mud etc.

 

[wrestlerguy21]

Cool that was what I was looking for