Well as promised heres a walk through of the heat staining effect . I started by gathering all my cheapo eye shadow sets that ive picked up along the way along with some applicators , cotton buds and some make up remover wipes .The type of eye shadow you need is the ‘baked’ stuff , its quite dry and powdery , the one you dont want is the greasy type as this will just smear . The exhaust area had previously been masked and sprayed with matt varnish - this makes the eye shadow stick to the surface better. Get plenty on the applicator and apply some to the back of your hand to get a feel for how it goes on . I started with the blue areas , rubbing it in quite heavy , then the purple , then red . At this point it looks terrible but it soon gets knocked back after a rub with some kitchen roll/ cotton wool. Even after this it still looked too much to my eye so out with the make up remover pads and take most of it off and start again . The second time I didnt use as much red / purple and also added a few darker metallic grey lines and highlighted the darker band at the front . After a good rub to blend it in im happy with it . You can either leave it now or fix it with a light misting of hair spray , although if you want to keep your glossy shiny bits youll need to mask everything else off! Im going to leave it as is , it seems very well fixed . The area in front of the cannon port also got a smudging of black / dark grey to simulate the sooty staining in this area.
So there you are , next time youre in Poundland or wherever have a look on the cosmetics aisle , theres loads of stuff that can be useful for modelling( or you could just nick some of the wifes/ daughters / girlfriends but dont blame me if you get in trouble!)