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So, I recently bought and assembled a Chaos Rhino, and now I am going to paint it. I want it to be black, with some red details, and I am also considering using camouflage on it.
Yep, Chaos camouflage. The colours I want to use are black, grey, and dark red.
I am considering either a Tigerstripe pattern, some oversized Flecktarn, a simpler one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:French_Centre_Europe_camo.jpg), Splittertarn, the Swedish M90, or some kind of digital camo. I know, these are quite a few, but I'm having a ahrd time deciding, so I really need help. Which one do you guys think would look best on a Rhino?

And also, I do not own an airbrush, so, how would I paint this? I'm thinking about tons and tons of masking tape.

I'd try and keep it looking either organic, like a reptile or insect or very weathered, dirty and crudely painted. Probably best to go with a stripey kind of pattern either way.

Sponges are great for adding texture to flat surfaces like a rhino and fading between colours. Thin down some paint on a palette, tear off a small piece of dish-cleaning sponge and dab it very lightly onto the model. Repeat many times until you build up a mass of tiny dots of colour across the surface, giving a speckled look.

Here's an example of the kind of pattern I think you could achieve with sponge-painting and masking tape. Start by painting the whole body a dark grey. Then sponge on a dark red all over, covering up all the dark grey except for the bits which are too recessed to reach with the sponge. Then do the bright red, concentrating the colour in a band around the middle of the model. Then do the light grey along the underside. Highlight the edges of panels with a thin line of bright red at the top and a bone colour at the bottom.

Then make sure the whole thing is really dry and break out the masking tape. Tear it into rough triangles and apply in a tiger stripe pattern. Paint the entire area dark grey, drybrush with a lighter grey and sponge black across the edge of the masking tape. Using good painter's tape, pressing it down carefully and not thinning the paint too much will help avoid bleeding around the edges, but it really doesn't matter it there is a little bit. Any area which is too obviously runny can simply be painted black with a brush.