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Hey all, this is my first tutorial!
I made it cause the only tutorials on metal I found told you to drybrush your models. That looks well and fine, but I do it differently soI thought I'd share my way of painting the metal bitz on my orks....

First, the rusty look. I used it on these two for example:


First stage for that'd be a solid layer of a dark metal (I used GWs boltgun metal)


Then apply a black wash, badab black in my case:


Now you apply a homebrew "rust" wash. I mixed vermin brown with little bit of scorched brown (4-1) and thinned it down to a wash. If you dont have vomit brown, a 5-1 mix of bestial brown and blood red also works (wich you then mix with scorched brown)


After that you use a sponge (or in my case a piece of foam) and rip a chunk of it off. You need a rough edge. Use that to apply some vermin brown, with some scorched brown mixed into it.


Followed by a wash of vermin brown:


Then, sponge on some more vermin brown, this time without any other colors mixed into it.


Here you go, sadly the cameras batteries died before I could take photos of the highlights I had done, but it looked like the tankbusta nob above.....

And here is the other method. It looks like old, worn metal.

Start with a solid layer of a bright metal (yes, bright. The idea is to make it darker and darker using washes, and you stop when you have what you want)
I used mithril silver:


Then, apply some thinned down badab black:


and some devlan mud:


and some sepia:


more devlan (yeah, I moved the lamp coloser o it actually looks brighter.....):


Then, I highlighted it with a mix of boltgun and mithril (wich should look look the chainmail I dont own )
the finished result:


If you're wondering why the paint on the mithril basecoat pic looks a little thick; its because I had already done all of that once, but forgot to put a SD card into the camera I had to repaint both arms -_-

I hope this helps someone

Great step by step!

Nice pics. I like how you can clearly see the outcomes of each step.

Great work on this. Its easy to follow and has a good picture trail.

Been using a variant on your first method and it is turning out quite nicely. Really nice Tutorial. Thanks!

Thats nice to hear! I'd be interested to see how you do it, did you upload any pics?

I followed pretty much everything but with my homemade wash I used Secret Weapon Armor Wash and a drop of snakebite and scorched brown. I used a bit less on snikrot and his blades but I am pretty happy but may make a couple more changes.