Layering terrain with spraypaint

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**hasdrubalsbrother**

I have been making some rocks from bark and have under coated them in black. I wanted to start to lay down some grey in all but the eye pest recesses and was wondering if there was a way to achieve this with spray paint (rather than using a brush )?

**Ratius**

Yup, its called dusting. The idea is to hold the can around 12-24 inches away from the piece and give it a quick blast. The idea is that you are far enough away to get a "light dusting" of paint on the piece. It leaves the recesses darker but picks out the raised areas on the model.
Best to try it on a few test pieces too. Judging the can distance is key and quick small blasts are better than a long deep one.

**granander**

I think it is hard to do actually. Not really answering your question I do have two alternate suggestions:

1. You could do a drybrush in a few tones. To make it look a little more realistic you could combine it with stippling in between drybrushing layers.

2. The model railroad way seems to be something like this and seems to be very fast.

**Ratius**

This might be of some use to show the overall effect. All done with dusting except for some drybrushing on the darker areas

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/359853.page

Sadly GW removed the hobby article that showed off the technique I copied. Morons

**oadie**

The 'dusting' technique works. I've seen some great model railroad layout tutorials for rock faces that show it in action. Few prime in black, though - general preference seems to be using acrylic washes over white to get a mottled base color, then dusting on highlights with a spray can (also helps to tie the underlying colors together) and extreme highlights added by drybrushing.