pcolla1

Hi Everyone, I am building a midwest lobster smack kit. The cloth they give in the kit, is bright white and clean as whistle, how can I really give it that realistic weathered look? any tricks?

Umi_Ryuzuki

I read that Tea is gives a good tarnish to model sails.

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hpiguy

Use it to wash your windows a few times, wash it, wash windows, wash it again.

cyclops2

VERY VERY weak Tea. You can always make a stronger tea.
Bleach on the cloth is a pain & can rot the cloth later. It will.

Rich

mrbsltz

Good idea on tea, you can always dulate fabric dye too. I got my Midwest Boat about done, except I'm waiting for some warmer weather so I can put some paint on the hull so I can check its balance etc. I've got it all primed. Hull isn't as smooth as I wanted it to me, but its also a wood en boat, compared to a steel one that has to be all prim and proper. Its my first boat build. Been RC flying for 20 years and got into floats on planes a couple years ago, thought a boat might be fun?