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I have been trying a couple ways to paint rust - sadly none of them have worked they look a odd fungus or a like mud.

I am looking for a way that is not to complicated and wont take to much time if any of you have a way please post it.

Get some mig pigments rust pigment and dab it on with an old, wet brush, stipple it on the areas you want rusty and dont forget to varnish as it tends to rub off easily!

Hope this helps...

Try with a sponge and a mix beetween GW scorched brown and GW dark flesh

My best (stolen) recepie for rust is the following:

1: (optional) glue some very fine sand on small areas with super glue for texture on disired parts.
2: Spray black
3: over coat with boltgun metal
4: Wash Badab black
5: Add wash with 1 part 50/50 mix of Snakebite leather and blazing organge and 6 parts water + a drop of dish washing soap.
6: light brybush with 50/50 boltgun metal/chaos black on areas that are "too" orange.
7: first hightlight on "worn" areas with boltgun metal
8: last hightlight wih mithril silver on "worn" areas.
9: Finally wash it all again with badad black.

Edit: I found the site where I found it a year ago: http://forums.relicnews.com/showpost.php?s=86d9dbf5b9dec015c543c2a4289a4f57&p=3035317&postcount=18

As a note, mig pigments or those available from www.awesomepaintjob.com are about 1000x easier to get realistic rust textures versus doing them with paints.

aerethan wrote:As a note, mig pigments or those available from www.awesomepaintjob.com are about 1000x easier to get realistic rust textures versus doing them with paints.

+1 for www.awesomepaintjob.com

Me and a friend just bought some of his pigments last week. Extremly fast shipping and the price can't be beat. He was having a special where we got all 3 rust pigments for only $6. Great deal.

I will support the pigment powder option. Vallejo, Mig, Forgeworld, and APJ all make suitable products.

For really simple rust, I dab on some tin bitz, and then slightly drybrush some areas blazing orange for a high contrast, very rusty looking rust.

Looks best on small areas.

How about Dark Skin, DS mixed with Blazing Orange (or whatever GW call it nowadays) the BO on it's own.
You get something like this -



This can be done over metal but if the whole thing is meant to be rusty then there's no need.
Also check out some military modeller mags - these do some great progress shots with good info on how the their weathering techneques are done (which can be very involved).

I happened to be at a bookstore a few days ago and glanced at some military/train modeling magazines. Seems like everybody is moving towards using powders and pigments for their weathering, be it rust, dust, or mud. I've seen the results and you can do a lot with them. The real question is how noob-friendly they are. Need to get my hands on some, once I know rent is covered...

Basic use of pigments is very easy. Brush pigments on the area you want weathered, using gently strokes. Work with little pigment powder on your brush, it is easier to use several layers. If you feel you overdid it, which goes wuite fast at the beginning, use a damp brush to remove the excess pigment, and create a very nice transparency effect.

I will go ahead and repost this, as it is a staple walkthrough on a ton of weathering techniques, including rust.

http://ultrawerke.blogspot.com/2007/03/painting-and-weathering-tutorial-part-i.html

Yesterday I invested in the Tamiya Smoke/Snow/Rust Weathering set; initial tests, combined with the Orange Rust/Gunmetal/Silver set, are encouraging, although require patience.

http://www.warhammer40k.com/40k/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7277&sid=0d0e021eb8fcb762e5c5147ff17d269c

I hope that helps.