Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Hey Guys,

This month we did a little aprils fools tutorial ; )



But also we did created a true tutorial for this effect. Hope you will like it!





Enjoy!

Awesome tutorial! Thanks for sharing! Couple things:

- Would these steps be used if you intended to paint say a bright green tank? Im a bit confused as to which colors are meant as your weather colors and which are actually the color scheme you are using. It seems that you paint your weathers first than your base colors after and let the chipping medium do the work?

- its important to note that you use a white spirit (i think), as the aformentioned thinner?, on the rust streaks (and black oil, i can assume as well). Turpentine is also a thinner, and will eat right through acrylic paint thus completely ruining a paintjob.

Thanks agin for the tutorial. Really interesting to see this in real time! Ill be trying this soon and sharing my results here

Cheers
BB

You could use those basic techniques for any color of tank. This one is pretty heavily weathered and looks like it might be a white tank that sat idle in the weather for a really, really long time so rust is really coming through. You don't need to go that heavy if you want something a little newer.

With weathering it's always good to take a look around at real life and get your ideas from there.

Haha nice april fools one