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I'm struggling to find a way to paint minor cosmetic damage from heat. Mainly, I intend to use this effect around the edges of my Assault Marine's jump packs and possibly on some heavy and normal flamers. Any suggestions?

I use Chestnut, Flesh wash and Black Inks Mixed together, but not watered down. Paint it onto the area that you want, and then blend it with the main colour. After that, paint the tips of the Jump pack/flamer black. This also works well for Oil on metal components Ive found.

I blend a little bit of grey and black and streak it back from the exhaust, with more black at the orifice, more grey further back

wow, I've been dry brushing tinbitz, but the result has been fairly hit and miss..

Tin bitz with a brazen brass drybrush over top.

Vallejo model color Smoke works well too.

I use a black dry brush that is heavy around the orifice and lighter moving away from it, then go over that with a brown dry brush that is pretty dark and not terribly heavy. Works nicely for Seraphim jet packs and flamers.

I've used vermin brown drybrushed over/around the tips, and then black, lightly, over that.

tamiya smoke effect X-19 really looks pretty good for an oily smoke effect

I use a sort of "ink drybrush" around the exhausts. Black ink, flat of the brush, done. Could use a brownish ink, too. I think that heat shouldn't be considered damage, in that it doesn't destroy the paint. If you're aiming for this kind of look, then it's a bit trickier.

If you were asking about heat damage on surfaces, I'd use the unreal tournament game as reference. Some burns and scorch marks are perfect (replicating them is a bit harder though).

I second the vermin brown thing. In the WH codex it even recommends to drybrush vermin brown, then chaos black the very tip of the pipe/gun in order to make it look realistic.