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Okay, I've just about finished this thing. Unfortunately my glue decided it was going to spring a leak and glue its cap on, so I can't quite finish it yet. Plus I need to paint that bolter. Beyond that though, this is done.

This is my first 40k tank. I'll say it right off the bat, I'm not pleased with it.


This thing looked great when I removed the masking on it. Unfortunately, I thought to myself "hmm, I bet this would look great if I added rust detailing to the brown parts!" Needless to say, it didn't. In fact, I pretty much ruined it by doing that. This is what I wound up with by trying to salvage it. The bottle of brown paint I have is not a match, so I couldn't just repaint over the bits I had ruined. It would've looked way off. So, I figured I could try and make it look like bare metal was exposed. It's okay, I suppose, but I went way overboard. Next one, I'm going to cut way back on the chipping and I'm not touching it once I've got the masking removed. Just straight to the black trims and that'll be it.



Oh, and the reason I didn't just straight up scrap this thing is because I actually put a lot of effort into magnetizing the damn thing. I'll be taking it much easier with the chipping on the Predator turret and sponsons. Unfortunately, those parts aren't all painted up yet and, my FLGS does not have the correct size magnets anymore that I need to magnetize one of the sponsons. Plus there was that issue with the glue.

I figured I probably wouldn't get any replies on this. But, I pose a question to you, Dakka. Should I just leave the poor thing alone now, or should I just give it one more try and use the brown paint I have and just go over the silver. Try and get it back to what it once was? What say you?

IDK,,,,

It does not look all that bad,,rather battle worn ,rode hard and put away wet so to speak....

However,,,2 thoughts,,,,

Will it match the rest of your force?

If you are not happy with it,why not try to touch it up abit, because the chipping does look ok,but as you said,is abit overboard.

I agree with what Gomericus has to say as far as if it matches the rest of your force then why change? I think your efforts on weathering/battle damage are great. And being your first tank as well, its a fantastic effort.

I'm a little divided as to whether or not the damage is overboard. I kind of like it. After all, a couple days on the battlefield of the 41st millennium is probably going to be very unkind to paint.

Before you drop that thing in a tub of simple green or LATA, throw a heavy wash of brown/Devlin mud/dark shade on it and try a few edge highlights after that dries. If you still don't like it, strip it down and start over. Simple green won't mess up your magnetizing efforts.

I say post up a shot of the tank next to your scuzzy Nurgle guys so everyone can have a look at the two together.

Worst case if I ever find what happened to my old Rhino you can sacrifice it to His Pestilence.

Well, despite your own misgivings, IMHO I rather like it... I don't know if your going for a Chaos or an Imperial theme, but like above posters have said, the actual method of weathering you've used is actually pretty effective, and in a 40K setting, even the Astartes aren't gonna have shiny paint-jobs for too long. If I were you, and this is just my take on it, I would weather the rest of your force down to match it and have a 'hard-bitten' kind of feel. In any case, tanks are bound to have more weathered and worn than the average Astartes/Guardsman etc. due to their increased surface area. I vote keep it that way.

I actually think this looks really cool, and you could go for a: NO TIME TO PAINT TANKS, KILL MORE!' Sort of army, and I feel the weathering adds a lot of character to the tank, and will also make it stand out from any others you paint (different patterns of weathering would separate different tanks) and, you could match different tanks to certain types of squads, and add more weathering depending on which squad it was. So if your Rhino is used to carry Tac Marines, which wouldn't get very close to the battle, then have less weathering than if you were carrying Assault Marines without jetpacks, who would be there in the midst of the fighting, thanking the Rhino driver for risking life and limb (and paint) to get them there

I suppose I should've pointed out that this tank belongs to my Nurgle Chaos Marines. My guys do have silver on their armor, though it's mostly visible on the ones who haven't felt as much of Nurgle's Rot. I'll attach the tracks to it tonight and I'll post some pics with my troops.

Well in that case, I would dirty up the silver with some browns and green 'patina' cause nurgle marines have probably been driving the treads off that tank for centuries.

You know, I actually did add washes to the treads and they're still really shiny silver. Oh well. Maybe they swiped the tank from some Imperial Fists? I contemplated putting some scratched off IF markings on it. I glued the tracks on, so it's done. Here she is with a good chunk of my Plague Dogs marines.





A few other odds and ends snuck into the pics as well, like my painted up Strange Tree and one of my Defiance Panzer Grenadier corpse markers.

These do look really awesome, and I think your tank fits the Nurgle theme really well, because CSMs aren't exactly going to chill out for an hour to paint their tank xD

agreed ! yellow nurgly goodness ! and it matches those marines, I'd leave it mate !

I think it looks fantastic! Maybe some rivulets of rust running down it in places? Thin a little brown ink and streak down from bolts/pool in crevices.

Its heavy weathering, but it looks pretty good. I would also agree with the call for a wash or something just to dull it down and grimy it up a bit. It is a litle too clean to have taken such a beating

It looks as though it has been in the body shop. As if some loyalist was trying to grind the taint of nurgle off the armor. I have used a mix of skin and brown inks to dull down bolt metal before. I think what you have already is pretty great.

I assumed (since no one had said otherwise until recently) that it was and Imperial Fists tank, and as such the battle damage seemed a bit much. Well done damage, but a bit much.

Now I know its for chaos, it looks great!

Yeah, wash that sucker HARD to pull down the clash between the edges of the colors. It will soften the transition between the colors and look more natural, instead of the crazy sharp edges you have.

I would dull down the silver a lot with rust. It's fine overall but looks a bit too fresh and silvery.

And ditto to the wash idea of Muga.

You said that you chipped it. Did you hand paint the chipping or did you use a chipping fluid? If you used something like AK heavey chipping fluid then just wash it all off. As long as you hzve not varnished it yet. I also agree with a wash or filter.

Leave it, it matches and looks great! Awesome first effort at a tank

To do the chipping, I used a liquid mask over a dark brown basecoat as well as the salting method for finer chips. The orangish yellow was sprayed over that, then the masking and salt were removed. Rusting this thing was what led me to nearly ruining it in the first place though, so I'm not see keen on revisiting it. I've dulled down some of the silver in a few areas with a brown wash though. You can sort of see it on the top rear hatches going down the center.

I wish my first tank looked this good.

I love this tank.