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Hey guys.

I was wondering if anyone had some tips or know any tutorials on how to paint
battledmg that looks good.
Mine always ends up with a black patch with a bit of silver on it.
I never get it to look as if a bullet has actually hit there.

Please help me!

Cryb.

What type of Material? Steel? Power-armor?

Tanks. Done 3 rhinos and 1 landraiders
They look too mint
Need to ware them down a little

I've had the most luck using Charadon Granite and Chainmail or Mithril Silver.

I've attached a rough mock-up of what you want to aim for.

Start by painting the damage on with the Charadon. You want to focus on edges and corners, since that's where the paint is most likely to wear or chip away.

Once the Charadon is dry, paint INSIDE it with the Chainmail. Try your best to leave a thin line of Charadon between the metal color and the vehicle's color.

Then, if you want the damage to look old, use a few washes of Badab Black, Devlan Mud, or Gryphonne Sepia to dull the metallic color down.

Blue Orphan hit the nail on the head - this technique is easy but works very well for SM vehicles

Use a dremel or drill to dig into the plastic first. Paint the inside grey with an outside of a dark panzer gray. Do not use a metalic, fresh steal is not shiny. When finished put a mud wash on the spot, this will give it a burned look.

Can this technique also be used on WFB painted plate armour (Warriors of Chaos, Empire Knightly Orders, etc) effectively? Like the OP, if I try to get some battle damage on there, it ends up looking like I just dropped the mini on the floor and chipped the edges rather than scale "Battle Damage".

Depends on the model. If the model has painted armour like a shield then yes. problem is sometimes it looks a bit off when done to a small model. If you wan to do it too a small models e.g. warrior of chaos, then get a lighter metal colour and paint scratches on raised areas and on the edges of sheets of armour.

Khornholio wrote:Can this technique also be used on WFB painted plate armour (Warriors of Chaos, Empire Knightly Orders, etc) effectively? Like the OP, if I try to get some battle damage on there, it ends up looking like I just dropped the mini on the floor and chipped the edges rather than scale "Battle Damage".

The biggest problem with doing battle damage on those models, in my opinion, is that it looks too painted on.

Heat up an exacto knife blade and practice making what look like blade impacts along the armor. It then allows you to give you a bit more depth to the battle damage rather than "why does this model have a funny colored scratch?"

Thats awesome guys.
Thanks alot everyone!

Along the same lines as blue orphen, I think the simplest technique is simply to paint jagged black on areas where the paint on whatever your trying to damage would chip and then paint on a dark metallic like boltgun metal or pigiron leaving the black edge. Dab on a little brown wash (devlan mud, vallejo smoke, etc) and your done.

That being said there are many many many many many techniques for doing this kind of work both simple (as described above) and advanced white gluing rocksalt you your mini on a metallic undercoat, painting the mini, and then pulling or melting off the rock salt, etc.) and the easiest thing to probably do is a google search. Also check out Tamiya's page as they make very specific products for doing battle damage and they have how to's and what not.

Check out this article by Grey Death http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/224015.page

There's also a blog post by CMDante here http://cmdante.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-paint-chipped-armour-tutorial.html

Both use the sponge weathering method which the Forgeworld guys recommend in the Model Masterclass volume 1 book.