Hand Painted Tanks!

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**Diezel**

I Want To See Your Hand Painted Tanks!!

Cant Decide if i want to purchase an airbrush or just hand paint my tanks... Also dont really have the area to airbrush, so im curious to see other tanks and see the difference between airbrushing and hand painting...

thnx in advance!

**Deathshead420**

My hand painted kitbashed hetzer/vindicator.

**HONAW**

Deathshead420 wrote:

While the paintjob is awesome........ That tank is very...very..... funny looking!

**Arm.chair.general**

My hand painted nurgle tank...

**Gavin Thorne**

No airbrushes here, just big ol' brushes:

**daedalus**

HONAW wrote:
Deathshead420 wrote:(redacted)

While the paintjob is awesome........ That tank is very...very..... funny looking!

Hetzers gonna hetz!

**Ribon Fox**

Here are my offerings.

**Knightley**

These are my hand painted tanks

Rhino's

Razorback

Predator

Vindicator

Landraider

My blog shows the stages I went through to get them to the state they are in.

**Ultra Grey**

All brush work.

**The Dwarf Wolf**

So, how you guys get that effect using only brushes? Well tinned paints, big brushes and lots of layers?

**Commissar41.0**

I refuse to believe that Ultramarine tank is hand painted...so crisp....so, so ....beautiful

**heartserenade**

Not cleanly painted like the others, but I'm not really aiming for a clean paintjob:

**OverwatchCNC**

Nurgle Guard Chimera

Salamander Vindicators

Salamander LRR

Salamander Rhino

Space Wolf Rhinos and Razorbacks

Baneblade

**ZachFTWx**

All of my tanks are brush painted

I also have a conversion for my Chimeras, so that they are able to be used as Hydra Flak Autocannons.

Sorry if the images are not very clear. If you would like a better look at a certain tank, let me know!

**mu'kau**

No Airbrushes here. Only because I have nowhere to airbrush though.

**Ultra Grey**

Commissar41.0 wrote:I refuse to believe that Ultramarine tank is hand painted...so crisp....so, so ....beautiful

LOL. Thanks for the kind words. It really is all brush, as I don't have an air brush set up. Here's the break down:

Base coat with UM Blue
Wash with Asurman Blue
Dry brush (heavy) with UM Blue
Dry brush (light) with Shadow Grey on edges and center areas of large flat areas
Edge highlight with with 50/50 mix of UM Blue and SW Grey

The metallics were the traditional dry brush of Bolt Gun Metal over black base coat.

**gruebot**

**Saintspirit**

Here's some of my Eldar and Dark Eldar tanks, not at all painted with an airbrush (manely since I don't have one).

**SagesStone**

I don't use an airbrush with anything, though if I learnt how to it'd probably make some things quicker.

**HamHamLunchbox**

basecolor and highlights done with the gw spray gun,everything else was painted. rust was done with salt weathering

**orcpainternerd**

Painted this before I started to airbrush my tanks and it was a hard slow slogg

**Diabolical13**

Ultra Jelly on all your tanks. Mine is just feth

Crimson Fists rhino. Very first vehicle so it sucks a bit but its a little better now.

Taken with phone.

**Nurgle**

Deathshead420 wrote:

This is considered spam you do realise?

Automatically Appended Next Post:

Arm.chair.general wrote:My hand painted nurgle tank...

I require more handpainted tanks!
Wait.... doe this guy have an image or is it not appearing on my screen

**Jayden63**

I've never used an airbrush, and handbrushing can look very clean and pretty, it just takes practice and patience.

In my 15 years of painting this stuff, Ive probably painted. 8 rhino chasis, 6 trukks, 5 hammerheads/devilfish, monolith, two landraiders, chimera, Leman russ, scratchbuilt battlewagon, a few landspeeders.

It all just takes practice and you get better as you go.

**Flinty**

Some lovely work in here. Reclaiming the honour of the simple brush over modern technology

My humble additions the roll.

**HONAW**

**treadhead1944**

My gallery has a few more shots of it. The tracks are still in process.

**DemetriDominov**

Argh... so many good ones... I need to finish mine so I can post them! Also, there's a Vostroyan doing some work in another thread and he's doing it by hand. It's pretty epic. I won't steal his glory, by posting his own pics, but here's his thread: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/370649.page

**Deathshead420**

This is considered spam you do realise?

Was it spam? Or was it what you asked for?

**heartserenade**

I find it weird that a hand-painted tank in a hand-painting tank thread is considered spam, but I'm weird like that, I guess?