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I'm thinking about picking up some Blight Kings, but am not keen on plain Jane green armour schemes. I came across this, and was wondering how I'd go about achieving a similar look?

My first impression is that leadbelcher, typhus corrosion then ryza rust could work, but I've not had much of a previously positive experience with typhus corrosion before.



Any advice would be appreciated!

I've gotten a very similar effect on my Death Guard by painting the area black, drybrushing it lightly with Vallejo Metal Air Gunmetal Grey (a very dark grey metallic), blotching on Vallejo Dry Rust with an old ruined brush that has no tip, and then highlighting with a metallic silver.

Rusty metal is one of the easier effect to pull off.
Gunmetal, stipple brown (more) then orange (sparingly), brown wash, stipple gunmetal to 'clean up' (if you want to), then do edges with a more silver mix.

Yep, what winterdyne described is pretty much the same thing I've done except I only blotched on Vallejo Dry Rust instead of the two-tone rust colors, and I only did it in the pits of the axe steel because I didn't want to go overboard with it. If you want to do large, flat areas then stippling on the brown and then a technical rust or just rusty color like he said is probably the best so it doesn't look all samey.

You can also sponge/stipple/sprinkle various tones of weathering powders. Or stipple regular brown/orange paints.

Hi bud. I think its useful to remember that the person made the effect via working in layers.

The first layer looks to me to be a dark metallic
The next layer looks like a more gunmetal metalic
Next paint black into the divets or if its a black primer ignore painting those.
From there he probably splotched on a opaque brown in spots or used a pigment
Next after that he highlighted with what looks like a grey-white color or a silver metallic.

I hope that helps.

pretty much what they all said

Several ways to go about it really

Typhus Corosion and Ryza rust are extremely convenient, especially after you have had a chance to learn to really make best use of them.

I highly recommend if you do try them again, that you use the Ryza first, not second. It tends to get a bit too strong 'rusty' imo, and covering it up a bit with Typhus after, helps tone it down a whole lot.

Also, to use Typhus to start out on, on something you don't necessarily want extremely weathered, I would get some on an old brush, get your palette or a small cup, and add some water to the Typhus. Not a ton, you'll want to test it out. I'd say no more than 25% more water to Typhus. But it helps you control the corrosion a bit better as you can then just add more, to build it up.

It's always good to have real-life source material. For example I have a small length of rusted pipe on my desk. I've also started adding source material to my gallery. Again for example:

winterdyne wrote:
Rusty metal is one of the easier effect to pull off.
Gunmetal, stipple brown (more) then orange (sparingly), brown wash, stipple gunmetal to 'clean up' (if you want to), then do edges with a more silver mix.

Yep, did my Great Unclean One like that, except for the final stippling (I used feathering instead).

Thanks for the tips guys!

I previously followed some naff advice, and applied typhus corrosion on thick to tank tracks, to then drybrush metal over (I think I got the idea off a Next Level Painting video?). The end result sucked.

Just did a little tester on a spare Lord of Contagion I had gathering dust.

Leadbelcher > very thin typhus corrosion > stippled doombull brown > ryza rust > agrax earthshade thinned with lahmian medium.

Aaand it looks alright so far. Definitely preferred thinning the typhus down for less grit texture, and a stippling for more muted rust colour. I'll make sure to post a picture of the finished result.