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Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - 04:57 AM UTC
Charles shows us how to make rusty steel sheet from simple cardboard! Perfect for detailing all kinds of diorama, or adding loads to vehicles.

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Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - 06:30 AM UTC
Nice work. very useful tutorial. Thank you Charles.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - 07:08 AM UTC
@ti - Charles,

Thank you for sharing this easy to follow step-by-step technique for creating some very realistic rust effects on sheet cardboard.

~Eddy
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Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - 11:11 AM UTC
Is there any advantage to using cardboard, or is it just because it is cheaper?
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Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - 08:50 PM UTC

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Nice work. very useful tutorial. Thank you Charles.



Thank you kindly. Glad it can be of use to some.
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@ti - Charles,

Thank you for sharing this easy to follow step-by-step technique for creating some very realistic rust effects on sheet cardboard.

~Eddy



Hi Eddy. My pleasure. Glad you approve.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - 08:53 PM UTC

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Is there any advantage to using cardboard, or is it just because it is cheaper?



I can think of a some:

1. Cheap to come by. AKA, easily available.
2. light weight
3. Easy to work with, in terms of application.
4. Does not need a lot of tooling
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Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - 09:36 PM UTC
Excellent, easy to follow tutorial. Thank you Charles.
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Excellent, easy to follow tutorial. Thank you Charles.



Appreciate it.
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Posted: Sunday, July 28, 2019 - 05:30 AM UTC
Simple yet effective. Will be using this in the future. Thanks!!
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Posted: Sunday, July 28, 2019 - 09:57 PM UTC

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Simple yet effective. Will be using this in the future. Thanks!!



Thank you kindly. Glad you found it useful.
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Posted: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - 01:52 PM UTC
The markings you see could be hand written in usually white or yellow paint stick, and may be the plate identity or tracking number, a heat number, order number, grade of steel, and maybe the gauge/thickness and also length x width.
Some places may line mark that information down the length of the plate, with what is essentially an inkjet printer (or some places use a set of stencils on a wheel - that’s old school)
Or there might also be a printed tag/sticker attached to an end with ID/Heat/grade and probably some bar code.

Not all plates would be scaled up and rusty. Stainless steel or other specialty metal plates like nickel or titanium alloys would be pickled clean, and would be somewhat shiny, or even ground and would be very shiny and clean.
If it’s regular carbon steel and fresh off the rolling mill, I think the metal with have a more blue/gray coloration from the mill scale/oxide. If they sit out for a long time the oxide/rust will grow and it becomes the red/brown.
And plated unless they are belt ground are rarely totally smooth. There will be some pits (would be small in most models), there could be some firecrack pattern from the rolls that may repeat - many other things get transferred from the rolls or vacuum lifters etc.
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Posted: Thursday, August 15, 2019 - 01:52 AM UTC

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The markings you see could be hand written in usually white or yellow paint stick, and may be the plate identity or tracking number, a heat number, order number, grade of steel, and maybe the gauge/thickness and also length x width.
Some places may line mark that information down the length of the plate, with what is essentially an inkjet printer (or some places use a set of stencils on a wheel - that’s old school)
Or there might also be a printed tag/sticker attached to an end with ID/Heat/grade and probably some bar code.

Not all plates would be scaled up and rusty. Stainless steel or other specialty metal plates like nickel or titanium alloys would be pickled clean, and would be somewhat shiny, or even ground and would be very shiny and clean.
If it’s regular carbon steel and fresh off the rolling mill, I think the metal with have a more blue/gray coloration from the mill scale/oxide. If they sit out for a long time the oxide/rust will grow and it becomes the red/brown.
And plated unless they are belt ground are rarely totally smooth. There will be some pits (would be small in most models), there could be some firecrack pattern from the rolls that may repeat - many other things get transferred from the rolls or vacuum lifters etc.



Appreciate the extra info. Thank you kindly.
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