Hi,

Last weekend we were in Avsa Island (in Marmara sea) for an exciting workshop. I. Celikoba is one of the leading modellers (mainly figures) specializing in painting. He conducted a fantastic workshop explaining all his tips and tricks.

Here's what we did:

<u>Weathering with oil piants</u>

Celikoba uses only oil based paint in his work. He says besides the paint, the brushes must be of high quality and he uses Windsor brand of artistic paints. He adds that one gets to know the brushes better in time thus older brushes are more valuable. Celikoba advices using water and soap for the final cleaning of brushes.

Thrughout this work Mr. Celikoba used paint thinner only once or twice, and recommends only synthetic thinner.

Reefer used for the work before and after (and a few details from the finished model):









Before the work starts model is inspected and a rough plan drawn for weathering:



Some dirt will be applied first; for this, liberal amount of paint used ...





... and applied to the model with random strokes:











After the paint is applied the excess paint removed with a dry cloth:







After the rough cleaning, paint residue among the details removed with a clean brush:







This process repeated until the desired effect achieved:









Now the work may commence with detailing. At this stage, a technique similar to what we did above, first suitable paint for details applied and then the excess paint removed (or mixed with the base colour) with the help of a clean brush:













































































This has given me a new point of view for future weathering work - I plan to start using oil colours shortly.

Cem.

P.S. Some other works of Mr. Celikoba:

Bagdat Residence from Topkapi Palace:


General Krazinsky:


In the garage:


Detail from the "Rocket":


And a bonus:

Hi Cem,
Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic - and I bet you still have the grin on your face [:p]

Hi,

Yes, you're right I still have the images from that day flying before my eyes. It really was something special since we never used oil-based colours for weathering until now.

8 of our club members were there - and it was such a nice weekend for all the family members (the whole bunch we were 16).

Cem.

wow! Fantastic work and a great tutorial!!!