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Hello guys,

I just bought the very nice FW Realm of Battle cityscape battlefield:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Warhammer_40,000_Terrain/REALM_OF_BATTLE_CITYSCAPE_BATTLEFIELD_SECTOR.html

Do you guys have advice on how to paint such thing? It's my first battlefield so I just have no clue...

Any hints and suggestion is more than welcome!

Do you have an airbrush? I'd start there...hand painting thing thing would be a nightmare unless you had a very large brush...and that wouldn't give you the kind of quality you're looking for on such an expensive piece.

Good luck to you with this, and post pictures!

I plan to borrow a friend's airbrush yeah. No choice I guess

And what about colours?

Well, it's a war-torn cityscape, so grays and browns seem appropriate. That appears to be predominantly what was used in the video showing off the tiles (link to Youtube off the FW item page) - the art is in the application. An airbrush will likely save you time, here, if it can hold a decent volume of paint (this is where siphon feed brushes shine, as you can attach large bottles - a small-capacity brush may actually take longer than doing it by hand, unless restricted to specific weathering tasks) but it could definitely all be done, and potentially to a high standard, with washes and drybrushing. Coming back in afterward with weathering pigments will allow you to replicate textures and finishes that paints just can't match, if you want to take things up another level - rust and soot, where appropriate, and a sprinkling of brown dirt, but also the oft-neglected grays of concrete dust.