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Hi guys. In my tank thread the guys asked me for a step by step guide. I thought I would share that guide on this forum to. So I hope you enjoy and get some good ideas and tips from it.

1 After getting a nice black base coat do a fairly light drybrush of codex grey. I use a standard drybrush for this not a tank brush.









2 Repeat this with skull white.









That is the base armour painted and highlighted all In 2 easy steps.

3 Next the metal work. Paint anything you want metal with a solid coat of boltgun metal





4 Then give it a really good heavy coat of badab black





5 Then repeat this step with devlan mud





And thats the metal done.

6 Next step is to add the company markings. Start by painting the colour that will make up the sides regal blue.





7 Then using tape mask off a straight line the side closest to the front of the tank. You can you the indent on the other side to make the far edge of the middle colour. When this is done paint a codex grey stripe to form the base colour.





8 After this has dried apply 3 watered down coats of space wolves grey onto the codex grey basecoat.





At this stage you may need to do some touch up work on the line and any back parts inside it.

9 Now we will do the gun burns. firstly roughly coat the barrel in dwarf bronze.



10 Then add a purple to the area in the same fashion but a bit closer to the barrels end.





11 Repeat this stage with regal blue and then chaos black getting closer to the end every time.





12 Now give the whole barrel 2 good heavy coats of badab black over the section showing burn. Once this has dried stipple some dwarf bronze at the back of the burn to blend over the wash stain line that will of formed.











And after that All you do is add the id number. This is done with vinal numbers and letters sprayed skull white then simple added to the tank and add some dirt. I give my tanks a light drybrush of bestial brown using a tank brush to get the affect seen above.


Right I hope that works for you guys. Any more questions that I have not covered?

CC please.

Very nice tutorial! It's easy to follow, and I really like the final result. I don't see myself painting a tank black anytime soon, but I'll be using this if I do (and the section on the heat damaged metal, very nice!).

Hey, I used your tutorial for my guard army which are a dark german grey colour and tried the drybrushing of lighter shade of grey and i'm really happy with the results! thanks

Nice tutorial, will try this out on my tanks.

Do you guys wanna post up some photos of your tanks in this thread? I would lvoe to see how they came out.

I'll see what i can do

Great tutorial Truffle, I can see this working really well for an army like the Mordians or =I= Stormtroopers. Really helpful to have the multiple shot too. Thanks for that.

Here we go, these are my Cadians, and i have a few steel legion troopers to paint up aswell haven't got a name for them yet but happy to listen to your suggestions!

Absolutely loved the tutorial and here is my progress

Glad you all found it helpfull.

Them tanks are coming along nicely arnt they.

Sweet tutorial!
Might have to steal this for (gasp!) my land raider and rhino