Painting shipping containers using salt weathering (2/2)

Read part 1 here

Click on the images to get bigger verisons as we continue to paint the cardboard shipping containers.

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Once the salt is brushed off (I used an old paintbrush and a toothbrush) you are left with something already looking pretty good. The next step is to add some details.

 

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I printed out some mixed graphics to decorate them (there are plenty available online)

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Initially I glued them on with white wood glue…

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… but while it was still wet I scratched off bits that would have been lost when the container paint work chipped

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After that, a dirty brown wash to age them. This was GW earthshade

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Adding flyers and posters to the sides is easy.. just wet them with glue and then force them into the gully with the back of a paint brush. Once they are seated nicely, smooth down the sides.

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Then earthshade for them too

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Finally the entire container got slightly thinned earthshade on all the crevices and especially at the bottom

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A note on adding flyers… I find that treating the flyers and stickers with contempt makes them loook better. Overlays, torn ones, some half peeled off.. why should the container be a wreck but the flyers be mint?

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Here is the finished container. I could have added more detailing but I have a lot more of these to get through so “good enough is good enough”