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Hi i'm looking for a really fast and effective way to paint camo on models already painted.
Something like the Alaitoc colour scheme,i was thinking about a specifically cutted wet paper to attach to vehicles where i can simply colour the holes.
Any advice i don't trust on my idea very much.
My actual models looks like this,so must be a tecnique to fuse with my already painted army:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/718664.page

Layer the colors back and forth with sponges.

This isn't the forum for questions however, this forum is for finished work.

Stippling (using a sponge to paint by daubing) isn't a great technique to use on a finished model because you tend to paint over stuff you don't want to. In the picture above, you'd probably get paint all over the gems/bulbs of the model.

Which isn't to say it cannot be done, though probably the best tool for this would be a good, stiff bristled brush, which would allow greater control. The time savings found by stippling can easily be lost in clean-up of areas you don't want stippled.

Since your army is fairly dark overall, I suggest going with a grey stipple, not too dark a grey, followed by a secondary stipple of a bone/off-white color. Do the secondary with a smaller brush/sponge.

Camo stencils from somewhere like Fallout Hobbies?

One technique I saw for the mottled Alaitoc scheme is to use grey shades for the base, and then lay a blue glaze over the whole thing to tint it blue.

Thank you guys i'll try different solutions on a guardian or two to figure out.

Dumb thoughts: how difficult would it be the simplify the cleanup with the sponge technique with a mask (brush on or tape?)

It doesn't really look stippled or sponged to me. Stippling and sponging gives a rough scratchy look, the "chips" on that camo look solid. Unless they were sponged to get the overall shape of the chips and then the chips filled with a regular brush.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
It doesn't really look stippled or sponged to me. Stippling and sponging gives a rough scratchy look, the "chips" on that camo look solid. Unless they were sponged to get the overall shape of the chips and then the chips filled with a regular brush.

I suspect the paintjob in question is multiple thin layers of successively lighter paints rather than actual stippling, though that would be really time consuming. I wouldn't suggest the OP get hung up on trying to duplicate the paint job, but rather look for methods to get the same sort of effect at a fraction of the workload.

I've seen that look on Jetbikes before, and the technique was the multiple greys then blue glaze technique.

The wraithlord pictured (and the rest of the army in this color scheme) were featured in the 5th Ed rulebook. There was also a White Dwarf article at about the same time, and painting guide on the GW website now long since lost to the sands of time.

As I recall, it was indeed stippled on using a stiff brush and working up from black through the four or so blues in the citadel range at the time. The panel lines were done with black ink and the edges of the panels highlighted with Ice Blue. The blues were done first as to not mess up other details.