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I have been looking to get some rust effect for my Necrons. I really enjoy the look of the product called "rust effect" but it's alcohol based, can damage the other paint, and can get messed up with washes/clear coats.

I was wondering if anyone was aware of a rust effect paint that looked similar/good that was water based and would not have the same pretty bad side effects.

Thanks!

I'm not aware of specific products to do it right out the bottle, but rust effects are a pretty straightforward one to achieve.

You can get a solid efect with a mix of stippling in brown and orange, and using a watered down orange to sit in the cracks and edges, and dragged down into streaks.

 Lance845 wrote:
I have been looking to get some rust effect for my Necrons. I really enjoy the look of the product called "rust effect" but it's alcohol based, can damage the other paint, and can get messed up with washes/clear coats.

I was wondering if anyone was aware of a rust effect paint that looked similar/good that was water based and would not have the same pretty bad side effects.

Thanks!

Vallejo makes a water based rust like wash that is quite nice, though doesn't necessarily have the texture and full effect of pigment washes.

I just use pigment mixed with water:

 bubber wrote:
I just use pigment mixed with water:

Spoiler:

Which pigments specifically?

thinned mournfang brown makes a nice rust wash.

 Lance845 wrote:

 bubber wrote:
I just use pigment mixed with water:

Spoiler:

Which pigments specifically?

I use Mig - I have all 3 of their rust colours.
I'n the past I have also made my own from grinding up chalk pastels which is a really cheap way of trying pigments. I used that method here (the rust on the base):

For watery rust I use watered down Ryza Rust from Citadel. Kenny from Next Level Painting has a good tutorial using it up on youtube if you want to do a little digging.