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Hi guys!

I'm repainting this airplane and I noticed she is too white, a lil unreal for my taste, so I decided to make her become "dirty", really dirty as a plane with extensive use is.
But I dunno how to create step-by-step some sort of "mask of dirty" for her....or a layer that I can paste over the plane body in order to make her as real as possible.
Can some1 teach how to this?
Thanks in advance!

cya.

Would help if u told us what program u were using  ;)

:-/

hehehe...uuups! soorry! (stoooopid) LOL

I'm using PaintShop Pro 9.01.....

lol i tried psp9 and i didnt think alot of it,
I use psp8 but im more familier with it....

Ugg this is what i can think off....

Right,
Find yourself some grunge brushes, very usefull.

+ Use multiple colours on different layers use the effects such as hardlighting or multiply, to allow the original panel marks to come through.

+ Use Gaussier Blur when neciserry, sometimes it ruins the effect.

+ Sometimes using the Histogram can help things, but duplicate the object before, and then use hardlighting etc..

+ Use grunge brush's as either a eraser or a paintbrush.
This will give you the weathered effect aswell as the dirty effect.

+ Green's and Browns, sometimes can help bring out the dirt.

+ Cream colour can be used on the fuse to bring out a dirty and none perfect white colour, might be a idea to use grunge brush's and erase bits of the cream colour, and use the transparency settings.

Thanks!

I'll try it and post some pics of my "dirtie job" LOL

thank you.

cya!

No Problem,
Sorry it wasnt a step-by-step,
but thats how i explain it lol...