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2016/06/21 22:33:07
Subject: Paint chipping on Grey Knights? Can it be done?
Thinking about starting up a small Grey Knight force to ally in with my Imperial Fists. Paint chipping (in particular, salt chipping) is one of my favorite weathering techniques to use on miniatures. Normally I use a brownish red undercoat to show the exposed primer underneath the top coat, but Grey Knights don't paint their armour so I don't think my usual technique will make a whole lot of sense in this case. Has anyone else done chipped paint on Grey Knights? What colours did you use? Or should I just suck it up and do what I usually do anyway?
2016/06/21 22:42:09
Subject: Paint chipping on Grey Knights? Can it be done?
What if you themed them fighting within the Eye itself and being covered with gore/filth/ectoplasm (as your daemonic enmity is themed) and the chipping is revealing their pure Cerimite?
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2016/06/22 12:06:30
Subject: Paint chipping on Grey Knights? Can it be done?
Is it that Grey Knights don't paint their armour, or that they paint it silver? Kind of like some aircraft which aren't actually aluminium, but are painted in an aluminium paint.
So you could pretend it's metallic paint over a non-metal base.
Otherwise if you're trying to represent it as actually being metal, chipping isn't going to really work. Though it could be dents where grime has collected in the dent, not sure if salt chipping is a good way of representing it though.
When metal first scratches it creates a shiny line, as the edge of the scratch reflects more light, so you could represent that with a lighter metallic. Over time the scratches may go dark, darker than the surrounding metal, as the damaged area is more prone to corrosion.
2016/06/22 12:53:22
Subject: Paint chipping on Grey Knights? Can it be done?
Since Grey knights dont paint their armor, there is no "paint chipping"
However, ofc their armor gets damaged and shows scars of battle.
Therefore I have 2 types of (similar) techniques to represent that:
1) Scratches
- Paint thin Scratches with Agrax Earthshade or Nuln Oil. If need be apply more than 1 layer.
- Highlight 1 side of the scretch with your brightest metal color (e.g. runefang steel).
2) Dents
- Dents are very similar to Scratches.
- Paint a blob of Agrax or Nuln on your miniature.
- Apply a second layer focusing on the top half of the dent (to simulate depth and lighning).
- Highligh the top Edge with your brightes metal color.
2016/06/22 20:45:53
Subject: Paint chipping on Grey Knights? Can it be done?
Aeri wrote: Since Grey knights dont paint their armor, there is no "paint chipping"
However, ofc their armor gets damaged and shows scars of battle.
Therefore I have 2 types of (similar) techniques to represent that:
1) Scratches
- Paint thin Scratches with Agrax Earthshade or Nuln Oil. If need be apply more than 1 layer.
- Highlight 1 side of the scretch with your brightest metal color (e.g. runefang steel).
2) Dents
- Dents are very similar to Scratches.
- Paint a blob of Agrax or Nuln on your miniature.
- Apply a second layer focusing on the top half of the dent (to simulate depth and lighning).
- Highligh the top Edge with your brightes metal color.
Do you have any pictures to demonstrate the technique? I'm specifically having a hard time visualizing the dent techniques.
The other thing you could do is use multiple colors of metallic paint and hairspray chipping. You could use a dark metallic with a lighter metallic over it or two similar colors with different finishes. I am working on a 1/72 scale T-70 X-wing painted in Poe Dameron's Black One livery and I used two different Alclad paints (Aluminum and Dull Aluminum) on the canopy to simulate a bare metal finish that has been weathered:
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2016/06/22 22:06:54
Subject: Paint chipping on Grey Knights? Can it be done?
I'd suggest doing the chips in a dark grey colour. Remember power armour is made mostly out of plastcrete, which by all account's isn't a metal. Don't ask me what it is, some kind of futuristic super hard plastic maybe?
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2016/06/22 23:33:32
Subject: Paint chipping on Grey Knights? Can it be done?
Aeri wrote: Since Grey knights dont paint their armor, there is no "paint chipping"
However, ofc their armor gets damaged and shows scars of battle.
Therefore I have 2 types of (similar) techniques to represent that:
1) Scratches
- Paint thin Scratches with Agrax Earthshade or Nuln Oil. If need be apply more than 1 layer.
- Highlight 1 side of the scretch with your brightest metal color (e.g. runefang steel).
2) Dents
- Dents are very similar to Scratches.
- Paint a blob of Agrax or Nuln on your miniature.
- Apply a second layer focusing on the top half of the dent (to simulate depth and lighning).
- Highligh the top Edge with your brightes metal color.
Do you have any pictures to demonstrate the technique? I'm specifically having a hard time visualizing the dent techniques.
Just use the colors Aeri recommended.
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2016/06/22 23:43:40
Subject: Paint chipping on Grey Knights? Can it be done?
Tamereth wrote: I'd suggest doing the chips in a dark grey colour. Remember power armour is made mostly out of plastcrete, which by all account's isn't a metal. Don't ask me what it is, some kind of futuristic super hard plastic maybe?
It's made of ceramite, which is a kind of futuristic ceramic material (probably some sort of ceramic composite, which can have a metallic look to them).
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