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I'm trying to make a rust theme Necron army but am having a hard time finding the materials. I've been to pretty much every hobby store around town; all have heard of what i'm doing but none of them have what I need let alone really know what I need. I was at my local gaming store and was told its some sort of oxidation technique or something you can do but no one knows exactly how or what you need to do it. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

The quick and easy way is to just wash the metal brown, which seems to have worked for my Kroot.

Here is a great tutorial on how to do it using pigments.

My favourite way to do it:

- Thinned coat of Dark Flesh
- Liberal wash with Devlan Mud
- Random stipple of Snakebite Leather
- Random stipple of 1:1 Snakebite Leather and Bubonic Brown
- Random stipple of 1:1 Snakebite Leather and Blazing Orange
- Random stipple of 2:1 Blazing Orange and Bubonic Brown
- Highlight edges or chips with Chainmail

You get an effect that looks like the sword on this guy:



Hope that helps!

A good way to do it is just start off with a brown undercoat, then an orange drybrush, then a very light drybrush of your chosen metal

Aye or go the simpler route head over to your local model railroad store and pick up a vial or two of rust in various shades ..you dry brush it on after you paint the model nice ..it even leaves some nice textyres on the surface ..then run a sepia wash over it ..after its dried.. ..

Are you talking about using actual rust pigment to paint your models with?

If that's the case, here you go:

http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.ca/2010/01/tutorial-how-to-create-real-rust.html

I might as well chip in with a recipe too... I've done this with both the old and new GW paints.

Basecoat warplock bronze or tin bitz.
Drybrush boltgun metal or leadbelcher.
Wash devlan mud or agrax earthshade.

The next two stages create the rusty effect:

Wash liberally with a few layers of watered down 1:1 blazing orange and tin bitz mix.
Roughtly stipple on blazing orange or fire dragon bright with a drybrush.

Finally edge highlight and add scratches with chainmail or ironbreaker.

However- If you're willing to learn to how use them, the best weathering and rust effects are achieved with pigments (I haven't yet- I need to give them a shot)!

Here's my rusty Land Raider -


& here's it's thread where I explain how i did it -
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/302092.page

 bubber wrote:
Here's my rusty Land Raider -


& here's it's thread where I explain how i did it -
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/302092.page

Your stuff is awesome. I'd love to see what you could do with Storm Wall or Galleon from PP

Thank you.

Buy me one & I can show you!!

The screaming bell base paint gives off a very nice rust effect

 bubber wrote:
Thank you.

Buy me one & I can show you!!

I can't even buy me one right now....

I tend to use a stipling technique, adding areas of lighter color as I go. I often start using a bit of foam from a blister pack to put the darkest color(s) on. It is dead simple and cheap, and doesn't require fancy special made products, and I happen to think it comes out decently enough (though obviously that is just an opinion...) Here are some examples of how it comes out for me:









Jake

Light brown wash and orange drybrushing over the top.

Here's how I do it (note, the brush I use is the Citadel SMall or Medium Drybrush, so anything similar should do the trick):


Paint the surface Boltgun Metal
Wash with Badab Black (optional)
Stipple with Scorched Brown (if in doubt use sparingly)
Stipple more heavily with Bestial Brown
Drybrush Macharius Solar Orange
You could then wash with Devlan Mud if you wanted, though I don't usually.

You can see it in this picture on the bare metal surfaces including the horizontal bar (with the hook):



You can see it here on the deck and the crew's tools:

I use two different techniques for my rust.
The first one consists in taping brown and orange directly on my black undercoat with an old brush to get lots of tiny points, that create a rusty texture. Then add metal on some areas and thats it.

An example (and all the step by step there : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/180/406869.page#4479328 ) :




Second one is starting from a metallic base and apply brown and orange washes, and the put some metallic highlights on appropriate locations. It's a bit longer than the first method but it gives better results if you look at the model closer.
An example :



(direct link for full size : http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2013/4/13/484022-Mordheim%2C%20Purple%2C%20Ratmen%2C%20Skaven.jpg )

Re the oxidation technique I think you need Deluxe Material's 'Scenic Rust Kit' - http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/deluxe-scenic-rust.html
I've tried (on the raider above) but the results were veriable - you really need to follow the instuctions, inlcuding amounts of material & time between steps, exactly!
I would use it more if it was more consistant / easier to use & less expensive.
Therefore I'm sticking to paint & powders.

I'm sold on this!

Best and easiest way;

To make rust - use liquid green stuff on a small piece of sponge until it becomes textured

To paint rust - basecoat dark brown, stipple 50:50 of basecoat colour and an orange or red, stipple with metal colour, wash agrax earthshade and serephim sepia mixed 50:50

For rust on my iron Warriors i used a stipple of Dark Flesh followed by a lighter stipple of Blazing orange (old citadel paint names) - always came out ok.


(on the model in the pic this was done over a coat of Tin Bitz)

I have used this from Les over at awesome paint job

I'm not claiming mine is better but I have a very simple method that I used on the above model

Drybrush silver, wash brown
then dry brush brown
then drybrush and stipple an orange brown mix
then stipple orange
you can add in some silver or original armour colored chips after.

I used mournfang brown, boltgun metal, blazing orange and gryphon sepia, hope this helps

IMO, the best way to do any weathering is layers.

For rust, I start with my darkest metallic with a tiny bit of a red-brown mixed in, followed by a light drybrush of the metallic without the red-brown.

After that, I'll stipple on various rust colors in various orders.

For bigger buildups of rust, I'd do a wash of rust pigments mixed with rubbing alcohol -- the same goes for any rust streaking, like under a drain-spout or something -- and I'd set it with a clear-coat.

In my own stuff, this is where I'd do an oil wash, or any of my chipped paint or anything.

After that, I'd keep building up the rust pigment layers.

I've also read good things about including graphite in your pigments.

http://www.fcmodeltips.com/2013/02/oxido-magico-magic-rust.html?spref=fb

Yo can use one of the best weathering products on the marer - AK-Interactive. On my blog you can find some reviews and tutorials:
http://coloureddust.blogspot.com/2012/09/modelling-materials-part-3.html
http://www.coloureddust.com.pl/2012/12/modelling-materials-part-7.html

HOW TO's:
http://www.coloureddust.com.pl/p/how-to.html