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Hey all, I just recently began painting my first battlewagon (blue and metalic) and I was wondering how to rust it and make it look damaged?


Thanks

I would just use a mix of tin bliz and drawf bronze!

If you have access to an airbrush, you might consider salt weathering.

If not, then to do good chipped paint, just paint on chips in chaos black. Then go over the chaos black chips with boltgun metal, being careful to leave a thin black line showing around the edges.

For rust, you can drybrush some orange in increasingly brighter orange, or use a rust colored weathering powder.

I use skull white, then dark flesh, bolt gun, and mithral silver for recent damage.

Paint chips, dirty washes like Devlan Mud and I use these:

http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/87080weathering/index.htm

Wow that website is really good! I got one of those weathering sticks ages ago now I know where to get differet ones (apart from my loacal toy/modle shop)!!!

Check out my big gunz:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-14732-15364_Custom%20Ork%20Big%20Gunz.html

First I painted them Iyanden Dark Sun. Then I gave them a brown wash.

Next I used piece of foam that was cut from the stuff that people use in their carrying cases. I dabbed it in Scorched brown and lightly touched it on the model. I did the same with vermin brown and boltgun metal.

Rust-All, I love this stuff!!! Excellent for making things look rusty!

http://www.rustall.com/

Ashton

One of the staff at the Chicago bunker taught me this technique to create rust holes in a vehicle once upon a time, but I have yet to perfect it. Maybe you will have better luck.

1. Cut a hole in your vehicle about 1.5 times larger than the size you want the final hole.
2. Roll out fresh green stuff into a very thin sheet on a piece of wax paper with a wet metal cylinder.
3. Let it dry for about 45 minutes. Check it every 10 minutes thereafter. You want it to start firming up, but it has to still be a bit pliable.
4. Cut the green stuff to a jagged shape appropriate for the hole. You will need several similar copies for this stage. Make the interior portion of the hole jagged so no two pieces match exactly.
5. Place several of these thin layers on top of each other, blending together the outside edges, but not the inside edges where the rusty hole is.
6. Let the piece dry completely.
7. Run over it with coarse sand paper to give it a scratched look.
8. Use a putty tool or dentist pick to chip away at the inner layers so it has a flakey look.
9. Attach it to your vehicle and paint with your favorite rust scheme.

I have not been able to execute this well. i have problems getting these paper-thin sheets of green stuff off the wax paper intact. The staff member who showed me this technique has some achieved some great looking stuff with this method though.

-Jim

Nice technique but this is for painting rust!!!

Check out my weathering tutorial..............

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/302517.page

I paint the area black, then the middle of the damage boltgun. Simple but effective. Its a bit lazy but it works.

Dakka search function/Google, plus phrases like "weathering powder/pigment," "sponge weathering," "salt weathering," "how to paint [rust/soot/scorching/mud/etc]," etc. will turn up a ton of threads/sites chock full of advice. Military modelers tend to gravitate towards more advanced techniques for realistic weathering (pigments, filters, sculpted damage, etc.), but you can get by with naught but a bit of stippling with red-brown and orange.