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Hello all,

I currently run a Necron army as my first ever miniature army. I essentially taught myself basic modeling on this army and I'm happy with how they came out. Not as good as some of the more veteran players at my FLGS but nothing patience and practice wouldn't teach me. However, I decided I'd like to collect a second 40k army and this time I wanted to make them something REALLY impressive. Over the internet I see many people posting pictures of tanks with impressive dust effects like this one:

http://homepage.mac.com/james.clay/iblog/B233824576/C1744031705/E20071014082244/Media/IMG_0019.jpg

as well as seeing some infantry models with nice looking chipping effects like this one: (also with cool dust effects!)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_O-FYHeeq7A0/S2Egzf-CH0I/AAAAAAAAACo/ojwIeUxMHqQ/s320/DKOK1-1.jpg

I know there are also techniques for making shadows on the model but I don't know how to do that myself. I've been having trouble trying to dig up tutorials on how to do these things and was wondering if anyone had any useful links.

For those that care, I wanted to start a Death Korp of Krieg army. I'm certainly being overly ambitious on this one. But i bought myself some Imperial Guard Sentinals to practice on before I even think of hitting the order button on those Forgeworld models. With a pretty big perfectionist streak and the added incentive of how expensive the models will be. I'd like nothing but the best when I do finally get around to ordering and painting them

That tank looks like they used an airbrush for the effect.

Shadows can be done with washes, dry brushing, or highlighting. There are some really good video tutorials on Demonoid right now.

If you want some real good tutorials on weathering than pick up a copy of the Imperial Armour Masterclass Volume I. It has tons of ideas and god examples. Otherwise try googling for powder weathering, oil colour washes and chipping techniques.

Well, you could try Zenithal airbrushing (if you wanted to get an airbrush): http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Zenithal_Airbrushing%2C_OSL_and_Snow_and_Ice_Tutorial%2C_subject_-_Grey_Knight

Looks great, is relatively easy to do and gives good shadowing.

Chipping is relatively easy to do. Paint random paint marks on a model where it would get worn (usually in a mid grey, but choose a mid colour of whatever the chip will be coloured as - rust, metal etc) then highlight the bottom edge and shadow the top edge to give the impression of depth.

Dust can be done using very lightly drybrushing a series of colours over the muddy/dusty parts of a model. If you want it looking like fresh dirt, start light, and get darker. If you want it to look old and dry, start dark and get lighter.

You can also use weathering powders mixed and fixed using a matt varnish.


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Savis wrote:If you want some real good tutorials on weathering than pick up a copy of the Imperial Armour Masterclass Volume I. It has tons of ideas and god examples. Otherwise try googling for powder weathering, oil colour washes and chipping techniques.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Painting_with_oils

Also has some information on using weathering powders with oil paints

nectarprime wrote:That tank looks like they used an airbrush for the effect.

Hard to tell for certain with that pic, but I think it looks more like weathering powders.


Ghidorah

Thanks for the links! especially the Imperial Armour Masterclass book. Found one at my FLGS and flipped through. Its very helpful!