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I am committing to buying a few of these new-fangled Drills:
https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Terrax-Pattern-Termite-Assault-Drill-2018

Now I am wondering the easiest way to paint them. I am thinking of priming them with gesso, then spraying a base coat of Leadbelcher on it. I may then paint the plating blue to match my AdMech, highlight some brass bits, etc.

What should I do next to get a really good mud or churned soil texture on the drill bits? I would prefer something simple and looks good. Think tabletop quality.

get some stirland battlemire or whatever the mud paint from gw is, and chuck some around the working parts. then get some dried mud pigment powder and dust that over the top. you can also get flattened grass effects..cant remember if its AK interactive or Mig. have a look at some of their products. they probably make a dried mud effect by itself aswell.

Paint the base with PVA and dunk it in fine gravel, then paint/dab over the top with a 50/50 mix of PVA and water, I find our Deep Brown colour works well as a dark mud and then dry brushed with Mud Brown to pick out the raised parts.

Duncan does weathering...

Nice. Most of my bases are simply painted VMC Red Leather with patches of Martian Ironearth. So I would need red mud.

If I go with Stirland Mud, would I just dry brush with VMC Red Leather? Would it be safe to mix product?

It's just paint with bits in - do what you like with it. Use Stirland Mud and Stirland Battlemire (same ide, bigger bits) then paint over them with whatever colour you want.

Or just mix some fine sand into the colour you want your bases to be and use that directly. If it's a Vallejo color, you'd probably want to decant it from the dropper bottle into a flip-top pot first.

When you go to use the mud/battle mire you can increase the amount of texture/variation by letting it half set and then just stab at it and move it around with your modeling knife to create more texture and variation. I found it also works great if you build it up in several layers to create even more variance.

I’m scratch building one just now, I may even base mine so I can have a churned up furrow of Earth it’s sitting in. For stuff in/on the drill assembly I’m torn between sand and just paint.

Colour wise, deep brown drybrushed with a mid flesh colour gives a wonderful wet mud look.

 JohnnyHell wrote:
I’m scratch building one just now, I may even base mine so I can have a churned up furrow of Earth it’s sitting in. For stuff in/on the drill assembly I’m torn between sand and just paint.

Colour wise, deep brown drybrushed with a mid flesh colour gives a wonderful wet mud look.

I might want to base mine anyway. What base size are you thinking of using? And what material to create the furrow?


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 AndrewGPaul wrote:
It's just paint with bits in - do what you like with it. Use Stirland Mud and Stirland Battlemire (same ide, bigger bits) then paint over them with whatever colour you want.

So it won't mess with the texture effect? Because the mud seems somewhat dark. Not sure how much I would need to mix in. Painting over it after it dries seems safer on second thought.