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I literally made an account just to comment on this blog, this is some breath taking stuff man! I hope you update the final step for your painting guide soon, I'll be utilizing these techniques on my valkyrie shortly and eventually my vulture gunship (when i get around to doing all the fun stuff you have to do with resin... ) the marauder bomber looks insanely good!

griffomate wrote:
I literally made an account just to comment on this blog, this is some breath taking stuff man! I hope you update the final step for your painting guide soon, I'll be utilizing these techniques on my valkyrie shortly and eventually my vulture gunship (when i get around to doing all the fun stuff you have to do with resin... ) the marauder bomber looks insanely good!

Well, making an account just to comment is certainly praise! I think I'll probably get the tutorial finished this weekend, I've been working on some X-Wing ships recently but it's time to finish up the LRBT as soon as the weather dries up enough for spraying.

And finally I took a break from X-Wing stuff and finished the tutorial.

Step 6: Oil and Grease

Remember how we were saving this until after the matte varnish because oil and grease stains are supposed to be shiny? Now it's time to do them. You want to use inks for this, and I mean actual inks, not GW washes. Washes and acrylic paint in general dry with a matte finish, inks have the right glossy shine. And you want to be patient, build up your stains with many thin layers so you have nice natural-looking blending. Start with heavily watered down brown ink and flood the source of the stain then drag it down the model in the direction of gravity. You should only have a very faint trace of brown as it fades out towards the end of the stain, soak up any excess with a clean brush if you have more than that. Let it dry, then repeat with another layer. Continue adding layers (about 2-3 more usually), covering a little less area each time. Then do the same with watered down black, only very close to the source of the stain. Finally, if you want a little extra shine, mix about 50/50 black ink and gloss varnish and paint it on around the heaviest spots of oil/grease.

It's kind of a subtle effect on top of the other weathering, but a couple examples are on the thin metal patch on the main gun and two of the axle "cap" things on the side of the tracks in the second picture.

Step 7: Final Details

Not a whole lot to say here, mostly this is just painting in a few small details that you don't want to put a layer of matte varnish on. I've found that lenses get dull and "flat" looking if you do them before the final varnish layer, so I paint them last (using the standard method, nothing special here). If you have any really bright shiny metal areas you'll probably want to save those as well. The antenna (also added here) is just a bristle from a cheap paintbrush I got at the hardware store, and looks a lot more in-scale than the usual plastic ones.

Love the tank! Definitely look very grimy and worthy of a DKoK army!

Fantastic extended tutorial. Really indepth and what a awesome final result. Thx so much for taking the time to put All this down. Great stuff Peregrine.

Wow, that tank is gorgeous. I'd love to play a game against such a wonderfully painted army!
Also, thanks for the tutorial. I'll be sure to try some of your techniques for grime and mud on my Tau.

Have to agree, that is one of the best Leman Russes I've seen painted. Nice work and I love the glowing blue light!

I'm finally back to some 40k stuff instead of X-Wing. So, continuing with the theme of OOP FW models, here is a Stormblade:

Finally, another 40k model done! General Grizmund, commander of the 1st Narmenian Armoured Regiment:

Fanfeckingtastic work as ever Peregrine. Ur tuts on weathering are still bookmarked and greatly appreciated. Top work

Beautiful. I love the kitten and the uniform color.

I love your weathering. Is it a salt technique?

 Gordon Shumway wrote:
I love your weathering. Is it a salt technique?

The sequence of posts starting here explains the weathering. The TL;DR of it is sponge chipping + oil wash, no salt at all. I don't have an airbrush, so as much as I'd like to try some of those techniques it's not an option.

Grizmund looks great! I need to try that weathering technique for myself too...

yeh..... that's some inspirational weathering right there!! Also... really like the pale skin tone you have used for the general! Really nice and it works well IMHO

Just to prove that Peregrine is not idle, my current WIP:

Almost there...

Looking good!

And it's done! Really pleased with how this one turned out, it may be the best tank I've painted so far.

That is beautiful. I love the glass effects on the cupola, and the little details in the rear and outside of the tank. Weathering is excellent as well. I really need to try that tutorial out.

Looks pretty good! The weathering is perfect for giving the impression that this vehicle has been sitting here for a while. Is this piece just for display, or is it intended to be used as terrain or an objective in a game?

That is absolutely spectacular

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Is this piece just for display, or is it intended to be used as terrain or an objective in a game?

Could be terrain, if I feel like hauling my own terrain to a store. Mostly it's a display piece for my collection of OOP FW stuff.

That Wrecked Chimera is gorgeous! It'd make for a great objective in a game.

love this thread! keep up the great work

Superb stuff as ever peregrine. Really love ur vehicles. Did/would you ever do a tutorial on the interiors of ur vehicles like the chimera? Would be really useful. Cracking effects

Very nice work indeed. Lovely interior and weathering detail.

I love the sandbags around the top hatch. Gives it a nice battlefield improvisation vibe.

I must admit.... this is directly up mine street!! really loved the look of this model for a long time! Really well done.. and those paint skills of yours and the weathering make it look particularly real and effective!! That iron / grey / blue colour of your armour is a cracking backdrop to really make the reds and oranges of the damage pop out!!

 Januine wrote:
Did/would you ever do a tutorial on the interiors of ur vehicles like the chimera? Would be really useful.

I'll see if I can remember to take some pictures next time, but it's pretty much the same as the rest of the weathering except with a little heavier use of weathering powders than on the exterior. And even that's getting scaled back a bit, I think.