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Excellent Tutorial James. These short and to the point video's really help the expand the knowledge base and skill sets of model builders. Looking forward to seeing more like this. 👍😎👍

Simple technique but producing brilliant results. Thanks, James....yet again another informative and on point tutorial. These short 'vignettes" you present are so worthwhile and valuable to all levels of model building. This one has arrived at the right time for me so I'm very grateful to you for sure👌👏

I love the look of it without the oils. Thank you for this. You were the first to pop up when I was searching for "how to paint realistic looking leather"❤ Thank you sir.

What a great tutorial. Thanks James for sharing your scale modelling knowledge.👍😎

Brilliant result! And I have to say I love your second attempt too. Great work and thank you for the tutorial.

Great video James! I'll be using this technique for the leather on the Kettenkrad for sure. Similar to how I've done it in the past but I've not tried the sponge and that really made the leather look awesome! I should also one of these days get some of the VMS products. I hear good things but haven't pulled that trigger yet. Anyway keep making great content. Cheers! Oh, btw I thought your first attempts still looked great... just different that's all.

Excellent video! Just followed your advice on the leather pads on the hatches of my Churchill VII. Worked like a charm...cheers!

Yet another amazingly well explained and simply excellent tutorial. Thanks James.

Absolutly amazing James, when im painting leather I usually do it with acylics, but defenitly im gonna try it with oils!! Thank you so much!!!

Great tutorial.will be doing it this way from now.Thank you Ian

One of the best vids on painting leather, easy to follow along. Cheers.

Fantastic result! I'm going to try this on a 48 Ford car seat. Thank you.

Love your honesty mate, Thankyou for a great tutorial. Just subbed ☺️👍

I was really expecting you to do one to two steps of blending the yellow and brown acrylics before stepping up to the pure yellow but that was stone simple(as opposed to dead easy) and looks great.

Wonderful technic James, I love your how-to tip videos. I'll have to look and see if you have one for painting canvas, another tricky one many people struggle with. Thanks for sharing and model on! Johnny

That is quite convincing. Nicely done.

That looks fantastic! I'll have to give this a go on some leather seats, thanks for sharing.

Actually really liked the bench! Looks very good. Thanks for the techniques, fantastic tutorial.

I'll be trying this and another tool for the tool box. Your final comments ring very true as someone with a perfectionism streak, I mainly work with figures, and have gotten to 95% done and it doesn't quite meet expectation into the paint stripper and start over.

Thanks for this ! I've been looking for a tutorial that was well explained and you nailed it. I can't wait to try it out ✌☃✌

Great tutorial. But tbh for me your second attempt looks more realistic, and you absolutely nailed it there :D

Thanks for this great technique!

Excellent video my friend the distressed leather looks amazing great techniques and well explained thanks for sharing 👍👍

I enjoyed watching this very well explained tutorial. Thank you dear James. Always a pleasure to see the LPJ channel :)

Another great technique👌 Used the technique similar to this for when you did the seat in your Minerva, & was really pleased how it looked (for a 1st attempt😏). I’ve an old 1/35th leather chair that needs some attention soon so will use this again to try & give it some wear & tear. Nice video James👍

I'm gonna try this technique today... thank you!

Great result!

Another fantastic video James! 👍 Will have to create a new list of "Master tips and tricks" to put this in. Some of the best advice there at the end for sure! I know I will enjoy this hobby of ours even more through my imperfect creations.

Nice tutorial, James. Great results.

Thanks James great video for a starter, cheers.

really lovely work!

Very nice!! Thank you and I'll be trying this technique out!!

Fantastic result, that seat looks like the real leather👍

Nice tutorial. This something that I will definitely use someday. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome vid and so quick! Gonna have to try this out! Thanks for sharing 😉

Interesting. In principle, I do it in a similar way, although I use a brush and painting methods more..

I have seen you use this technique in other builds you have done on KZfaq James but when I have tried it I have never got the type of results you get. Like you say I was happy with the finish but I felt it lacked that something. I realise now I wasn't doing the oil shading and highlights. I'm defiantly going to give it a go thank you for producing this video, and in answer to your question yes I found it very helpful.👍👍

Nice tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

Great, It looks wonderful, thank you👍🏻

This is fantastic! I just finished an ICM WW1 Australian Army Ford touring car. Thanks!

Great work as always. I have recently found Vallejo Flat Earth is a great base color for a more cognac/saddle tan hue of leather (just for some more variety in leather colors).

Superb tutorial, James 😊👍

Very helpful and informative tutorial!

Great video! I'm definitely give this a try next time I'm painting leather.

*A lot of patience but the result is awesome for old leather, great technic LPJ!*

Great tutorial !

⭐️ great technique and very good presentation 😎 ⭐️ thanks for sharing 👍

Great work.

Awesome video

Great tutorial for this. 🙂

Super video 👍

Thank You, Masterrrrrr! Very good trick! Hug from Brazil, James and thank'u again.

Very helpful tutorial indeed 👍 👌

Fabtastic video again matey..

I like the bench more, for me, it just seems more real-ish. Of course, this brings up the point that everyone likes a slightly different result, and others might find what your not happy with as an amazing result. One thing to always keep in mind, as a modeler, we are always looking for ways to improve. So we tend to judge our work harder than needed. One thing I can think of for the bench on what could be missing, having a little bit of a sun bleached area. Or maybe even a dry pastel/chalk/pigment added to give it that little extra dirty/used look. Maybe even a combo of the two.

Okay but that bench at the end, I agree with your assessment that the bottom portion was just a tad lacking, but that upper portion looked quite good

Outstanding as always, thanks!

Good tips there. When blending oils I always remember the late Bob Ross who would say "use 2 hairs and some air"... in other words be gentle

Very impressive! You spend more time on a cushion than I do on an entire model 😂

Great video James! I know a few car modellers that could use this info! 😎

I picked up an old leather bound book and realised the journey as I sit here and look....

Great vid thanks for sharing! 👍

Nice job.

This was very helpfull! Thank you! :D

Great video! Leather is my weakness, will definitely try this

Friggin amazing :D I just wish I had a kit to try it on lol.

Very good and very useful. I asked in a previous video of yours about a range of suitable oil colours for someone who has never used oils previously. I don't want to buy colours that will likely never be used !

Great video my friend

Thanks for the tips! I hope you make more tutorials :)

You make it look really easy James, great video. Good audio levels too 😉

Nice technic to do Leather jacket, Like Bomber jacket!

Excellent merci

Dope!

The bench looks killer man! The only thing would be it was two different tones, but it looks stellar James 👌 I will have to try this in a upcoming build!

7:57 I would have been more than happy with such a nice result. Anyways when I grow as a modeler I might get more picky about how things should look but I hope not.

I also use a cotton bud just to the edges stipple effect.

This is a fantastic tip, thank you so much. I have been looking around for a way to weather up the ulpholstery on about 40 seats on a London Bus I am building from Revell. This will do perfectly thank you. Is it from your own experimenting and testing?

Amazing video! I wonder that if instead of oil paints would enamels work too? Or are they the same thing and I’m just not aware.

That is very nice tutorial. Would you share how would you paint black leather?

I know this is an older post, but thanks for the fantastic tutorial... I plan to try this method out! One thing that concerns me is the varnish coat over the wet oils. Do you ever have issues with it smearing or do you leave it alone for several days? I would think thag sealing the oil paint between two layers would prevent it from ever fully drying. Thanks again!

Could you cover the application of decals on different surfaces and how to weather them please

Looks very good, it seems that you varnish before the oil paint isnt really dried up. Dont you have any problems with that?

Thanks, Very nice. I assume you waited for those oils to dry well, before adding the final varnish. How long? In my experience oils do take quite a while to completely dry. Ralph

What color would you use for light details? Ochre or ivory white?

what color pallet would you suggest working with for black leather?

i have zero experience so pls disregard if i'm wrong. maybe the something is there should be different levels of reflectiveness between the weathered part and the leather part... but i don't know how to achieve that without it looking reversed

Hi

So much for buying paint that’s simply marked as “leather”.

What's 'lever?' 😆

DO NOT VARNISH OIL THAT SOON! Covering oils with varnish so fast will stop oils from drying and may never dry. Whole thing will be sticky. Also it may crack. Recommended time before varnishing oils is even 6months! Turp may evaporate but oil wont. Oil must cure.

Looks like a cheez-it I found in my college apartment.