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Hi there!

Could you please explain me how could this be painted, specifically, the armor? It's my prefered color scheme I've seen in Blight Drones. Many thanks!! ^^

It appears to me to be some kind of blending between orange, brown, flesh-like colours and a little green. Try watering down the more minor colours, I'd say.

With that texture, it looks to me like there is a weathering powder involved.

I don't know how the blight drone is structured when it's bare resin, so it could be standard out of the box.
If it is pretty much smooth, I think you'll have to sculpt the rough pattern on the body first. I work quite a lot with weathering powders and it would be really difficult to archieve such a "relief" with just the powders.

Once you have your surface the way you want it, it shouldn't be too hard to achieve this effect with weathering powders however.

I think the armor was done something like this:
- black basecoat
- dark (GW scorched) brown heavy drybrush
- green weathering powder (this is pretty hard to spot, this might be actual paint instead of powder, in that case drybrush that in spots after the brown drybrush)
- orange rust weathering powder

Thinner/ white spirits was probably applied to the powders after they were flung onto the model to fix them and let them run to give a more random and smooth appearance.
Also to give more depth this process was probably done in several layers of application.

Also, this is just how I would do this, might be that this was done completely different.

fiddler6291 wrote:I don't know how the blight drone is structured when it's bare resin, so it could be standard out of the box.
If it is pretty much smooth, I think you'll have to sculpt the rough pattern on the body first. I work quite a lot with weathering powders and it would be really difficult to archieve such a "relief" with just the powders.

Once you have your surface the way you want it, it shouldn't be too hard to achieve this effect with weathering powders however.

I think the armor was done something like this:
- black basecoat
- dark (GW scorched) brown heavy drybrush
- green weathering powder (this is pretty hard to spot, this might be actual paint instead of powder, in that case drybrush that in spots after the brown drybrush)
- orange rust weathering powder

Thinner/ white spirits was probably applied to the powders after they were flung onto the model to fix them and let them run to give a more random and smooth appearance.
Also to give more depth this process was probably done in several layers of application.

Also, this is just how I would do this, might be that this was done completely different.

As I've seen in pictures, it already has the rust modelled, so special products wouldn't be needed...

The texturing is on the actual model.

On a guess, the patterning would be either weathering powders or a series of different washes.

You need to go over the model again and again with washes, dry-brushing, stippling and sponging, until you get the effect you are looking for.



It isn't difficult in terms of skill. It just takes a long time waiting for each stage to dry. Sometimes you don't need to worry about drying.

Well, I suppose it'll be funny
Tell me Kilkrazy, which paints would you use dor a nurglish rust like this? By the way, that tank looks great!

Thanks.

I would start with Red Oxide and mix it with a bit of black, orange or yellow, to produce several shades. Then paint or dab these on to make the surface really patchy. You don't need to worry about smooth texture, the rougher the better actually!

The drone shown also has some patches of white on it, which are quite nice and look like mould. You could stipple that on very lightly once the main rust coat is dry.

There's a kind of hexagonal pattern on the fan blade guard. I'm not sure how to achieve that without seeing the texture of the unpainted model. I can't tell if it is relief or bas relief, which would let you do it with dry-brushing or a wash.

Kilkrazy wrote:Thanks.

I would start with Red Oxide and mix it with a bit of black, orange or yellow, to produce several shades. Then paint or dab these on to make the surface really patchy. You don't need to worry about smooth texture, the rougher the better actually!

The drone shown also has some patches of white on it, which are quite nice and look like mould. You could stipple that on very lightly once the main rust coat is dry.

There's a kind of hexagonal pattern on the fan blade guard. I'm not sure how to achieve that without seeing the texture of the unpainted model. I can't tell if it is relief or bas relief, which would let you do it with dry-brushing or a wash.

I'm sure the pattern you see on the fan blade guard is part of the model, unpainted. I suppose an old, rough brush would give a better effect... Many thanks; I don't have any experience on painting rust and I'm a Nurgle fan so... xD
Wait a minute... I've checked other painted models and it seems the most orange parts could be a layer of material; might be sand mixed with the colors you said?