Rough and tumble weathered Catachan Chimera

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**Brother SRM**

This is my first try at earnestly weathering a vehicle - I did a little bit of drybrushing on my scout car from a whiles back, but this is a bit more involved. Check it out:

And a WIP:

Yes, I painted this in one night and this morning! It's meant to be the companion Chimera to my latest Catachan Veteran squad.

**ph34r**

Looks good. Fairly tame for weathering, but no glaring errors.

**Brother SRM**

ph34r wrote:Looks good. Fairly tame for weathering, but no glaring errors.

Baby steps

**LadyGray**

I think it looks pretty sweet. Light weathering. Do you have the 'How to Paint Citadel Tanks' book? It is seriously my best warhammer investment to this day. I think that a little more dust around the bottom would be cool, but I like it how it is. All the colors match nicely.

**Bullfrog**

Better than my first try, the ploughy scoopy doodah looks very nice.

**Brother SRM**

LadyGray wrote:I think it looks pretty sweet. Light weathering. Do you have the 'How to Paint Citadel Tanks' book? It is seriously my best warhammer investment to this day. I think that a little more dust around the bottom would be cool, but I like it how it is. All the colors match nicely.

I don't! I've paged through it at my FLGS, but I think I might have to pick it up. I've got lots of tanks left to paint and I think it'll be a good investment for that!

**ChiliPowderKeg**

Looks great!

That yelling turret-hatch dude is awesome.

**Tyranid Horde**

This title does not match the picture. It should be more like "Slightly weathered chimera" Nicely painted though, needs more muck.

**Candroth**

I actually really like the sort of subdued weathering. I've seen some weathering techniques that look great, but there's SO MUCH of it that I almost think it detracts from the model itself.

That looks quite excellent. Good work! I love the dozer blade.

**TheH2Oelement**

What happened to the little lasgun turrets?

**Brother SRM**

TheH2Oelement wrote:What happened to the little lasgun turrets?

I leave them off because they look really goofy.

**TheH2Oelement**

Brother SRM wrote:
TheH2Oelement wrote:What happened to the little lasgun turrets?

I leave them off because they look really goofy.

fair enough, great job btw

**djphranq**

Nice job!

I like the tank commander/crew you have for it. I was thinking of doing something like that to make a gunner look Catachan-y... I wish GW would include an option to have Catachan torsoes for the crew.

**Jordankeeps**

Nicly done dude, looking really good, tracks are really good to!

**Gretar00**

Very nice paintjob! I also cant stop laughing at the "wazuuuuup" look on his face

**Brother SRM**

djphranq wrote:Nice job!
I like the tank commander/crew you have for it. I was thinking of doing something like that to make a gunner look Catachan-y... I wish GW would include an option to have Catachan torsoes for the crew.

I wish there were spare torsos in either the Catachan command or heavy weapons sprues; I only had extra arms because I'm working on Catachan mortars next.

Gretar00 wrote:Very nice paintjob! I also cant stop laughing at the "wazuuuuup" look on his face

The gunner's face is almost definitely my next avatar here

**NuggzTheNinja**

Looks good man. If you want to get more adventurous, start doing some sponge work (black and then BGM) and toothbrush splatter painting.

In order for it to be noticeable, you really have to go heavy on the weathering especially with the aggressive camo scheme you have going. I've found that as long as you keep it in places where it would realistically be (like down by the tracks), it doesn't make the model look too beat up to function.

The Dozer especially looks absolutely fantastic.

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Other people have done it better, but my IDF blog has some examples of how sponge chipping and toothbrush splatter weathering can look, especially when you combine it with Black Lava or some kind of mud texture. If you want...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/355940.page