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hello everyone,

I need some advice for my ghost ark. I just started to collect warhammer 40k and I choose necrons. I am going to paint them verry verry verry metalic. I like robots so i def wanna go for the heavy chrome/metal look (kinda like the robots in the new movie Pacific Rim. Now here is a piece of my ghost ark. The thing is i want it to look damaged so i grabbed a sponge put on some black and just added that to some places on the ark. Is it missing something or do you guys think this looks just fine already ? (Apologies if my English is hard to understand)

Its definitely a start! About the spongetechnique: I always found it best to focus on edges of armour plates etc, as that's where most damages would occur imho

 Requiem wrote:
Its definitely a start! About the spongetechnique: I always found it best to focus on edges of armour plates etc, as that's where most damages would occur imho

Thanks ! so just chaos black is fine ? or do i need to add some different collors ?

Chimera400 wrote:

 Requiem wrote:
Its definitely a start! About the spongetechnique: I always found it best to focus on edges of armour plates etc, as that's where most damages would occur imho

Thanks ! so just chaos black is fine ? or do i need to add some different collors ?

The black seems to be doing the job just fine.

When weathering, what is happening is that an outer layer of paint is being removed due to bullets or impacts or just general...weather, and the metal underneath becomes visible. So for things like IG tanks, the weathering would involve the top color, then some black showing through where a tank would have had a layer of primer put on, and then the bare metal underneath.

For Necron vehicles, things get a little different, since they're pretty much composed of shifting metal with no paint, no primer, nothing but the outer layer that might have dust, dirt and debris on it, then the shiny T-1000 living metal underneath.

I would say do the whole vehicle as normal, wash it, make it look used and weathered from being in a combat environment with nuln oil and and agrax earthshade to simulate mud and dirt, and then the areas where you want deeper weathering, put streaks of leadbelcher. In the middle of those streaks, put a brighter metal like platinum or silver (or whatever the GW equivalent of it might be) to show where the shifting, living metal underneath has been revealed through the grime.