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I haven't been able to find a single tutorial on painting vehicles with brushes. I have a dread and some other vehicles that I need to work on and no airbrush and no intention of getting one. Between some rhinos, dreads and immolators to paint on I also have one to a pair of titan weight class vehicles coming my way. Any tips to avoid the fethed up brush stroke look?

For the base colours, thin coats, applied evenly. Many layers, each layer stroked across the previous (so up-down, then side-side). Expect at least 3-4 layers per colour before it starts looking nice.

To highlight panel centres, drybrush with a soft brush in a circular motion (like makeup blusher, but with an appropriate brush). VERY dry brush, more intermediate mixes of colour will make this smoother and more airbrush-looking.