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I just bought the GW stippling brush from my local hobby store and I am about to get to work on painting my Vindicator for my army. I am fairly new to the game and have some pretty good success painting some of my first models. Have gotten very positive reviews, especially since its my first time painting miniatures. I'm no expert (like some of you here are) but my stuff turned out pretty nice, I will post pictures of it as soon as I can find my camera


Ok, well I got the stippling brush and I am painting ultramarines. I wanted to Stipple on mud/dirt/weathering around the base of my vindicator and wanted some tips on how to do it. I practiced a bit on a coke can I spray painted black and so far the best effect I got was a stippling layer of Calthan Brown, then a light layer of Space Wolves Grey (a different gray might be better, this is blue-ish but was all my hobby store had in stock atm) then a lighter layer of Calthan brown back over it.

it looked pretty nice, granted I think i will buy a grayer and less blueish gray later this week but any tips to improve that would be great. Or on how to weather a tank in general.


hell tips on where/how I can use my new stippling brush at all would be great too! Even on my space marines

ok cool, thanks guys

any specific sand you can recommend/where I can get it? Is it just called 'fine grade sand'? I know they sell sand at homedepot but its in like 50lb bags lol where can I get some fine grain sand in a smaller quantity?


also any specific color schemes you could recommend? And if I didn't want to do mud, and just weathering effects tips on that too. Remember im kinda a noob

thanks!

Woa, very cool effect Grim...now im a bit confused how you did that.

if I wanted to do just that (i might do it like that on my drop pod to symbolize the wear and tear from the airflight/atmosphere) how would I more specifically? I am a noob painter so I'm not sure the order you did. You started with black, then brown, then orange etc...building up from dark? or the opposite? I am a bit confused

thanks for the help guys