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This series is to show people how to get a realistic looking weathered tank using some really cool and simple techniques. The footage is all in real time to make it easy to see what is going on I will update this thread with more video and finished Photos as I go along. Please feel free to leave comments on what you think guys













Thanks for watching guys took me a little longer than I wanted to edit all the video's, but got there in the end

I like it man. Good Job

This is way to much work for me! The end result looks amazing and so realistic but i dont have the patients to do it....

Thanks either way for the great tutorial!

Cheers

Great videos. I am subscribing too.

Although the music was putting me to sleep.

This is amazing. I'm really looking forward to doing this.

Subscribing.

Now get yourself some AK Streaking Grime and Rust streaks and really have some fun

Thanks for the kind words guys just upload part 3

Like Eisenhorn said "have fun with AK streaking grime". he must have read my mind because thats whats in part 3

Insane levels of detail, but it's a great effect. I've learnt a lot from watching, thanks. I particularly liked the 'sucking off the brush' slip of the tongue too...

Great tutorial and awesome looking tanks

Looking good.
FYI if you mix Streaking grime with more thinner say a 1:8 grime/thinnner ratio it can be used as a filter.
Your technique is spot on,right out of FAQ2

I can also recommend highly the interior wash and grime.
Basecoat a light bone color,satin varnish,sponge chip with a black brown and hit with wash for perfect tank interiors every time.

Another way to do dust is use Tamiya Buff(or similar color) thinned 1:10 paint/thinner then spray it on the lower third

Incredible, i always wondered how people got that heavy decay/ radioactive feel for their death guard ... thanks.

Its quite ironic how much care and attention goes into making something look neglected

 Eisenhorn wrote:
Looking good.
FYI if you mix Streaking grime with more thinner say a 1:8 grime/thinnner ratio it can be used as a filter.
Your technique is spot on,right out of FAQ2

I can also recommend highly the interior wash and grime.
Basecoat a light bone color,satin varnish,sponge chip with a black brown and hit with wash for perfect tank interiors every time.

Another way to do dust is use Tamiya Buff(or similar color) thinned 1:10 paint/thinner then spray it on the lower third

That is some great advice mate and the tamiya buff sounds great. Funnily enough I have been painting a dark angels rhino with a bone colour interior to fit in with the box art work and used a similar technique only with vallejo'S brand new model colour wash's that emulate oil paints they worked pretty good


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 batfink wrote:
Incredible, i always wondered how people got that heavy decay/ radioactive feel for their death guard ... thanks.

Its quite ironic how much care and attention goes into making something look neglected

Lol thanks for the kind words

Really useful tutorial, I've got a few tanks to paint and I'll definitely be trying out some of these techniques on them.
many thanks

This is an awesome tutorial to watch.
Almost every single technique used by modellers is demonstrated in real-time. Simply invaluable!

While the end result might not be the one you are looking for, the individual techniques can easily be applied to YOUR models.

This is a condensed simplified version of FAQ, FAQ2 and Imperial Armour Model Masterclass all in one.

Thank you, Orcpainternerd, for taking the time to make this tutorial.


PS. The ferrule of a brush is the metal part.



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This is amazing - I'd love to try it out on the some tanks in the future, but the army I'm thinking of (Heresy-era Iron Hands) would have glossy black painted tanks - at least before the weathering.

What would you change in this to get similar effects on a black vehicle, and is there any way of keeping the remaining paint looking glossy, while the weathering looks matt/satin?

 ArbitorIan wrote:
This is amazing - I'd love to try it out on the some tanks in the future, but the army I'm thinking of (Heresy-era Iron Hands) would have glossy black painted tanks - at least before the weathering.

What would you change in this to get similar effects on a black vehicle, and is there any way of keeping the remaining paint looking glossy, while the weathering looks matt/satin?

That sounds like a great colour scheme mate

. I would go with a light grey colour to show through as the chips ( it has to be a light colour to pop out from the black ), but if you want the black to have a gloss Finnish, but not the chips that show through it would be very hard to achieve this with a spray gloss varnish. Adding dirt and grime over the gloss black finish would not be a problem at all and would actually look really cool as the contrast between the shiny paint job and the matt dust and mud would look awesome.

That's a really nice tutorial and the end result looks immense.

Do you have to seal the tamiya weathering kit with varnish or anything?

 Blaggard wrote:
That's a really nice tutorial and the end result looks immense.

Do you have to seal the tamiya weathering kit with varnish or anything?

Some times I do it depends how much I use and where on a mini I use the kit. If its just a little smoke effect on exhaust pipes I don't bother

This was amazing and super helpful. Thanks.

I absolutely was beside myself while watching this and did indeed get a nice cup of hot tea while I watched this.
Looks like I have to strip a stompa .

I hope this strategy adapts to yellow paint. I feel it will but, lets make sure!