Battle Damage

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Battle Damage

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Hey all,
Im trying to figure out how to do battle damage. On my excelsior model I but sparkelers up to it, so it looked liked phased burns. What another way to do it with modeling supplies? How do you all do it?
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my loknar damage project

THere's the construction phases. I still have to upload pictures of the painting and scorching. I mostly used pastels and the airbrush to acheive these results:

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Cody's Coop has an excellent article on simulating battle damage. I've found a lot of it applies to spacecraft also.
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The few I've done, such as the USS Earhart and the USS Challenger were done by making physical damage with Xacto knives and Dremel cutters and sanders, and then using a few shades of gray, black and silver to airbrush on the damaged look.
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I tend to use my dremel and various sized bits. Basically it depends on what sort of appearance I am going for with the damage. If I had an airbrush, I would use that for the colors, but I tend to use a combination of flat black paint, shades of brown, and pencils for weathering.
I made an old enterprise model (I originally made it the ST:VI version) into the self-destructed version from ST:III.

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