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I've been looking for a quick and easy way to add rust to tanks ... doing traitor guard and i'm going to go with a light grey color scheme with no camo and I want patches of rust throughout the model.

Someone suggested Ryza Rust as a good way to simulate rust easily, and after looking several sites said that typhus corrosion + ryza rust worked well, anyone used it first hand?

Thanks

Lemme get you a couple of photos of where I've used it.

Yep, it works well. I do wash first then drybrush Ryza but the other way would work too. All you need to do is be careful not to overdo the Ryza, it is very orange any anything more than a drybrush will look bad.

Spoilered for many pics and so as to not railroad the discussion:


In words, I love them! I've got some rusty metal shelves in my garage that almost exactly match the tone of brown and orange so I'll vouch for the color, at least on some things. I'm not sure if tanks rust exactly the same way as my shelves, but it's fairly convincing especially at a distance. I usually apply 1-5 washes with TC (usually about 2 or 3) to get a little texture built up, then drybrush it heavily with RR. And you can be messy and get off of the brown, or leave spots of brown without hitting them with orange too. Really simple to do, and I'd say it looks a lot better than it deserves to for the ease of use.

I'll also vouch for Blood for the Blood God, though I haven't had a chance to try the nurgle green one or the patina one, and I don't own the brown crackle stuff.

Cool, do you know if using a brown wash (earthshade) on top of it would mess it up? I want the tanks to look pretty dirty and I normally save the wash for last ... or I could do the rust after the wash, suggestions on which order to do it in?

Thanks

You can use washes over it without messing it up. Thats what I did for my reneguard weapon team bases. The washes tone down the orange nicely without obscuring the effect.

Sweet, learn something new every day, that rust does indeed look older and dirtier. I think the more orange there is the fresher the rust is. Nice use of the bike too

I used Ryza and Typhus extensively for a bunch of terrain as well as my brothers Nurgle Marines. It's pretty effective and easy. I add some Mournfang brown in there as well.

Here are some of the terrain pieces.

Cool, Thanks Guys