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I found this on google images, I want to paint my Blood Angels like this, but where do I begin?

How do I get the worn look?! I really like the dirty old armour.

http://www.wampforum.com/VB4/downloads.php?do=file&id=17

Go to the above link and there's a good tutorial on weathering.

You have to download the mag first of course but it's free.

I assume you're mainly concerned with the weathering? If so there are a variety of techniques and products you can use. Sites like slavetopainting and even citadel offer a large variety of textured paints that you can apply to give a model a gritty look by having actual pieces of grit in the paint. You can also pick up weathering pigments, basically colored dust, to apply to figures in order to give a wear and tear effect like soot of pieces of metal showing through. There are also a large variety of techniques you can do as well. Adding flock to paint on a pallette that you apply, sponge applying metallics to get a broken up pattern look for metal to show through. Some people will also paint a layer over the metal layer they put down and quickly get the paint off with say a paper towel or sponge leaving a slight shade of the color of the metal.

I would say pick a technique or product you like and just start experimenting, there are also tons of tutorials on weathering all over the interweb.

Looks like an effect made by weathering powders.

Paint them to a pristine look, then throw them in your loft for 20 years. Worked for me! (wish I'd known to put 'weathered' in the description when I sold it all on ebay...)

Weathering powders? I doubt it. I'm seldom a snob about painting, but those guys don't look too hot. It's not hard at all to paint like that. He used a black undercoat, painted the whole model with a dark red, the drybrushed them in various areas of wear and tear with some dark browns. The metal chipping looks like he just took some Leadbelcher and painted it or stippled/drybrushed areas of wear and tear with it. The gold just looks like Balthasar or Gehenna's Gold with an Agrax Earthshade wash.

So yeah, if you want some simple weathering, just drybrush with muddy colors around areas you'd see mud accumulate, and then drybrush/stipple some Leadbelcher in areas where paint would have wear, like edges. It's pretty simple, and hard to screw up!

I agree with Brother SRM. It looks pretty easy to do.

Spray black, then spray red from the top of the models. I'm almost sure about that, it's how I paint my dark eldars and the way the red is applied on the model is really similar.

Use the sponge technic with black then metal paint. Add details. Done.


It's quick and easy, but it still looks good.

nothing special...

looks like he just sponged on a brown, a dark grey and a metallic. rip off a small piece .

Using cotton buds applies weathering quite nicely too, as said above its simple techniques to get the above effect.

The single biggest thing I did that improved my painting was to stop using blobs of paint on my brush and instead paint it 'dry'.

Second was using inks, especially the liquid talent that is the black and brown.

By god what a difference, with no change in skill my painting got 10x better. Thats the easy way to get to like, half of the quality of whats in that opening pic

First, you want to make sure that when you assemble your jump packs that you don't fill the seams...