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I'm trying to paint my Imperial knight to appear as if he's never been active for ten thousand years. Is there an easy way to paint dust and chipping paint manually?

Where was he stored?

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Where was he stored?

In the hangar of a Mechanicum ship. It was environmentally sealed.

Well assuming that we're using some future paint I'd say in an environmentally sealed hangar the worst that would happen would be some pealing. Maybe some discoloration.

But if it was environmentally sealed I think it'd last quite well.

 TheManWithNoPlan wrote:
Well assuming that we're using some future paint I'd say in an environmentally sealed hangar the worst that would happen would be some pealing. Maybe some discoloration.

But if it was environmentally sealed I think it'd last quite well.

I'm looking to old decaying cars for answers and what I'm seeing is a lot of fading and rusting towards the edges of the vehicle so I might try to imitate that look.

Bear in mind from a lore perspective, the traitor legions etc havent necessarily experienced the full 10,000yrs.......the warp does werid things to time after all

That said, it might well do the extreme opposite

 HaRpEr wrote:
Bear in mind from a lore perspective, the traitor legions etc havent necessarily experienced the full 10,000yrs.......the warp does werid things to time after all

That said, it might well do the extreme opposite

It's a Loyalist Knight unironically named Only in Death, hence my desire to make it look as old and beat up as possible.

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 TheManWithNoPlan wrote:
Well assuming that we're using some future paint I'd say in an environmentally sealed hangar the worst that would happen would be some pealing. Maybe some discoloration.

But if it was environmentally sealed I think it'd last quite well.

I'm looking to old decaying cars for answers and what I'm seeing is a lot of fading and rusting towards the edges of the vehicle so I might try to imitate that look.

That sounds fantastic! If you pull it off it will look amazing. I think I might have done the same google searches as you when I read the thread, and looking at pictures of old cars, a knight that looked like that would be quite the thing.

Imagine a knight painted up to look like this:

That could work. Discoloured in places, bare metal showing through.

Though given 40k id go lighter on the rust.

Look into 'Salt weathering techniques' if you want a really beaten up look.

Interested in the results of this one.

10,000 years of active service...they'd have painted it a hundred times or more. Honestly at 10,000 years almost every part of that Knight would have been replaced/retrofitted/upgraded or restored.

That being said I'd go with a lot of rust and crud.

 Elbows wrote:
10,000 years of active service...they'd have painted it a hundred times or more. Honestly at 10,000 years almost every part of that Knight would have been replaced/retrofitted/upgraded or restored.

That being said I'd go with a lot of rust and crud.

10000 years of inactivity actually. The Knight is as it was coming out of the Forge, bar the corrosion and damage.

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Where was he stored?

In the hangar of a Mechanicum ship. It was environmentally sealed.

If it was in a hanger and environmentally sealed, it'd look pristine. You need to be looking at old cars that have been sitting in an airtight box in a cave. The cars you see with fading and chipping have been in the sun and elements.

Honestly, if it was environmentally sealed as you stated, it would probably look nearly factory new. That truck above for reference was likely sitting outside in the sun and elements for many years. On the other hand, a brand new paint job doesn't exactly convey the 10,000 year old machine you are probably going for.

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Elbows wrote:
10,000 years of active service...they'd have painted it a hundred times or more. Honestly at 10,000 years almost every part of that Knight would have been replaced/retrofitted/upgraded or restored.

That being said I'd go with a lot of rust and crud.

10000 years of inactivity actually. The Knight is as it was coming out of the Forge, bar the corrosion and damage.

Ah, okay. I had read "had been active for 10,000" not the other way around. In that case...covered in feet of dust.