Dried Sea Salt Staining?

[Mark]

I'm close to closing up the fuselage on my H-B W.12. Since the fuselage exterior is a single-tone grey and could use some variation, I was thinking that it had to have serious staining from evaporated sea salt, especially on the lower portions.

Has anyone ever attempted this? My thought was random splotches of light greys applied with a sponge. Any other suggestions or comments?

Thanks!

Mark G   

[compressor man]

I recently saw some salt staining on a model in another forum that looked absolutely fantastic,

[Pgtaylorart]

I was just looking at a thread by Justin, aka The Red Baron, about his FF33 float plane where it looks like he's using salt to great effect to create corroded paint and metal. I'm sure Justin can elaborate if he sees this.

Here's a link to his thread:
http://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=597.0

George

[WarrenD]

I *think* Mark is asking about how to replicate "salt staining" on his a/c, rather than recreating chipped paint with salt.

I could be wrong though.

Warren

[Mark]

Thanks, Warren, yes, you are correct. I was asking how others replicated staining on their aircraft from the ocean elements. I remember how my helicopter would have crusted sea salt on it after a mission over the Med. It required constant cleaning and waxing, something I doubt our WWI brothers had the time or the inclination to do.

But thanks to everyone who answered. I'm tempted to try some of the methods described 

Mark G

[WarrenD]

Oh, you'd be surprised Mark . . .remember, these a/c were the latest and greatest in tech at the time. An interview with Herr Timm, Voss' mechanic, revealed Timm's greatest memory of Voss' Tripe. It was nto about the color, or anything else we'd get excited about. It was, if memory serves me correctly, about the hours he had to spend after each mission cleaning the castor oil off of the thing.

so, long story short, I bet a LOT of a/c mechanics had to spend time cleaning salt spray, etc. off of their charges.

Warren

[pietro]

You can great scale salt staining effect by brushing Floquil Dust or Instant Weathering. It dries leaving your base color intact with a nice irregular whitish deposits in the crannies. Try it.