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Hey peepsicles

I need to make my marines look more weathered and battletorn, Especially my death company. Just need to know the best techniques. Any ideas or threads you can point me too?

Cheers in advance

just search battle damage on the tutorials forum and you should get some results.

did that and there was no results :(

well, there are several ways to make something look battle worn. I dont know where to start, because you didnt really specify what your looking for. Just for example, I can think of at least 4 different ways to paint 'chipped' armor and im positive there are even more ways than that. What type of effect do you want to achieve? do you use metallics? give me some of the specifics and what you want the final result to be.

Go ahead and browse through this thread right here. Some of the techniques are more suited for vehicles and larger models but you can adapt most of them for use on smaller mini's.

Meph wrote:Go ahead and browse through this thread right here. Some of the techniques are more suited for vehicles and larger models but you can adapt most of them for use on smaller mini's.

that is very impressive work. excellent technique for weathering...have you performed that type of weathering on a smaller miniature though?

Well, the salting might work with a finer grain of salt but it's pretty time consuming, you could easily replace that with just sponging. I'm currently using it on a razorback and land raider (very WIP atm), and it looks nice, also on the small bits (the sponging). The downsize is that you tend to place the chips on the edges, if you want chipped paint in recesses you'd need to paint them on using a brush, or use the salt.

Inking and weathering powders should work nicely on smaller mini's as well.

Using oil paint should work nicely on small mini's as well although it's probably also a bit too much time consuming to use on rank & file troops but for a presentation piece, no sweat.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/319675.page

Towards the bottom he shows detail on how he creates battle damage to the shoulder pads. May be of some assistance.

Liquid mask is my friend! jsut start with drybrushing your models with boltgun metal and then dab on some liquid mask sparingly, when it dries paint your base colour and highlight then get some blu tac and roll off the mask where you placed it and the chips look good and random and realistic you can then keep detailing until you're happy with your marines! :-)

I just finished this Space Wolf Scout and applied a painted weathering technique. My thread has a small tutorial on it towards the bottom.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/319675.page

Hope it can help

Yeah, what he said.

That was weird.