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I've been painting a very large Nurgle force with rust effects for a while. I'll go ahead and update this thread with more pictures as I go.

I really wanted to do very rusted and oxidized metals for most of the minis, and I think this look has worked quite well for the force. I feel like I rarely get to do this kind of rust (since even orks would probably throw out weapons that were this poorly maintained).

Odin's Raven...

OK now i am curius how did you get that rust effect this nicely!

Well done!

Incredibly great work.

Nice.

I'd love to know how you get this rust effect too, it's awesome, great stuff.

absolutely lovely in the nurgle manner. Recipe please!

Yeah, if it wouldn't be too much of a PITA I'd be really interested in reading how you achieved the purple.

The rust is done through stippling. Paint the darker color first, then stipple the lighter oranges on top of it (If I need more shading afterward, I'd do a glaze with a darker color).

Then, I picked one of the brightest silvers and painted on the chipping (mostly on the edges where the rust would be more likely to chip off).

The purple is done after most of the other colors were finished- mostly it was just done with glazes (just add some water to a bright purple). The color I used is P3 beaten purple (it is a vibrant purple).

The brightest purples- like the fire- were painted purple to begin with. I think I did some wet blending on those- it should be mostly Beaten Purple and white (I might have gone darker on the tips- my favorite color for that would be Nightshade Purple from Reaper- it is practically black).

 odinsgrandson wrote:
The rust is done through stippling. Paint the darker color first, then stipple the lighter oranges on top of it (If I need more shading afterward, I'd do a glaze with a darker color).

Then, I picked one of the brightest silvers and painted on the chipping (mostly on the edges where the rust would be more likely to chip off).

The purple is done after most of the other colors were finished- mostly it was just done with glazes (just add some water to a bright purple). The color I used is P3 beaten purple (it is a vibrant purple).

The brightest purples- like the fire- were painted purple to begin with. I think I did some wet blending on those- it should be mostly Beaten Purple and white (I might have gone darker on the tips- my favorite color for that would be Nightshade Purple from Reaper- it is practically black).

Brilliant thank you! What color primer did you use on this lot?

This is absolutely terrific and is exactly how GW should have painted them. They actually look like fetid, diseased, rusting horrors unlike the bright, comedic ones GW show off.

Top marks.

 Shrapnelsmile wrote:

 odinsgrandson wrote:
The rust is done through stippling. Paint the darker color first, then stipple the lighter oranges on top of it (If I need more shading afterward, I'd do a glaze with a darker color).

Then, I picked one of the brightest silvers and painted on the chipping (mostly on the edges where the rust would be more likely to chip off).

The purple is done after most of the other colors were finished- mostly it was just done with glazes (just add some water to a bright purple). The color I used is P3 beaten purple (it is a vibrant purple).

The brightest purples- like the fire- were painted purple to begin with. I think I did some wet blending on those- it should be mostly Beaten Purple and white (I might have gone darker on the tips- my favorite color for that would be Nightshade Purple from Reaper- it is practically black).

Brilliant thank you! What color primer did you use on this lot?

I pretty much always go with black primer.

If you're base coating properly, it doesn't matter so much what color your primer is, but black helps me do the composition as I go (ie, it is easier to tell if I got the highlights high enough before moving on to the next area, ect.