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Hello everyone,

I was experimenting with drybrushing blood red to give the metal effect on vehicles but the best I can get is an orange-ish colour rather than the bright red you normally see on Orks. Can someone reveal their techniques to accomplish this?

Bruno

I would try to reverse the process, so start painting the panels/parts you want the red on red and drybrush or sponge the metal color over that afterwards.

I wouldn't do blood red, I would do mechrite, and then go over with blood red.

But would you drybrush from start or just paint red and then drybrush boltgun metal?

Bacms wrote:But would you drybrush from start or just paint red and then drybrush boltgun metal?

Depending on how much red you want on your vehicle, I would paint either the whole bodywork red or the panels/sections where you want the red to be on. So not drybrush, but as you would normally do a basecoat.
Then I would apply the metal color, preferable with a sponge, since I think it will turn out more realistically. (Will look like the red paint chipped off and shows the underlying metal).

I drybrush the whole vehicle boltgun then drybrush blood red over it until it reached the color I wanted. Then I came back and drybrushed the edges. I did it this way because I figured orks are sloppy painters and it looks pretty decent.

Your looted Baneblade looks incredible! Nice work!

Your looted baneblade looks amazing but again you can see why I was complaining about getting orange. It still looks good but I expect a red paint jog to be more bright. Will try to find out what this sponge method is all about and give it a try.

Thank you all for the suggestions

I only highlight with blood red over a coat of mechrite then scab red for my orks. It turns out a lot less orangey.

Look up tutorials on painting blood angels/ravens.
It's usually something like this:
Prime white
Dark red base coat
With many thin layers of a brighter red layered on

At the very least try priming white

Great Baneblade Bat Manuel

I usually start in mechrite, then a thorough (not so dry) dry-brush in blood red (as Bat Manuel, I also can't picture orcs to provide a clean and even paintjob) and finish with sponged on boltgun for chipped paint effects.