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I'm planning on painting an Iron Warriors rhino and just wanted to see what in your opinion would be the quickest way to paint it while still making it look good? I had thought about chaos black undercoat then heavy drybrushes of boltgun metal and mirthreal silver then picking out the details. hat way would you do it?

1.) buy a bottle of silver spray paint

2.) spray tank

3.) repeat step 2 on another tank.

Chaos Black Basecoat, Boltgun Metal drybrush, pick out details in Gold and eyes in either a blue or red. Rinse and repeat. I managed to churn out an entire tabletop ready Iron Warriors Army in about 3 days (around 1500 points) using that method.

I got a 7$ can of 'Beaten Iron' spray several years ago- Rustoleum stuff I believe. Good color and a bit of texture.

Base coated everything with that spray, applied a bunch of washes and some caution stripes. Dusted with a bit of weathering powder. The caution stripes took longer than everything else, but each tank was about 45 minutes total.

I would start with black and drybrush on a layer of boltgun metal and then Mithril Silver.

You also could spray silver and give it a black wash.

I have a horde of IW in my legion and I had to go the classic way (spray black, drybrush Boltgun, highlight brass / bronze). The biggest pain in the as you can imagine was the caution stripes until I suddenly realized that *gasp* I have a color printer! I printed out small strips of caution tape, carefully glued them as necessary, gave them a good wash w/ dev mud, instant awesome.

I'll post some pics later, right now my IW are buried.

Black undercoat and drybrushing metallics are your friends.

As for the stripes... start with yellow (plenty of options with foundations now, doesn't even have to be a spectacular color) and then overcoat with black. If you even want to use the stripes.

basecoat black
boltgun metal(apply with spraygun if possible)
wash with badab black

yellow stripes:

white undercoat,iyanden dark sun,wash with griphon sepia.

to get the black stripes on the yellow just mask of stripes and paint black over the yellow.after that remove the masking.

then paint the details