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So I finaly decided how to paint my upcoming Death Guard CSM army. I want to make them heavily rusted.

How should I do this?

If possible I'd like to do this without using 37 different paints. I am open to using non-Citadel paints, such as Privateer Press.

Hi There,

There are many ways to achieve a very heavy (and convincing) weathered and rusted effect! And all can be achieved very cheaply with only a couple of paint colours and a little bit of patience.

If you wish, have a look through some of the pages of my own blog, I have done some work and weathered a few bits and bobs in the past that might be of use!

Hope it can be helpful.... but my first and I would say best technique..... is actually to produce your own "real rust" by soaking some fine steel wool in a small amount of water for a couple of days... and then drying out the resulting rust...... can IMHO be very effective!

Secret Weapon Miniatures and Vallejo both produce paint sets specifically intended for rusting up miniatures, with lots of browns, dark reds, oranges, and dirty yellows. Secret Weapon I think also has multiple videos available done by Mr. Justin on weathering/rust. The key is to use multiple colors and layers to get a great-looking rust effect. Google for images of rusty surfaces and you'll see that it's not just a single color of orange rust. You can also use weathering pigments to add some slight texture and make the rusted stuff much more interesting.

I find just a dry brush of leadbealcher on the areas you want rusted and then another layer of dry brush of mournfang brown works perfectly

A really simple and fast method would be a brown glaze over a metal base, then drybrush the edges with metal again, though you could maybe cut out a stage and just basecoat the metals brown and drybrush the metal colour over the top. Such simple methods aren't going to produce display standard paint jobs but for a fast tabletop standard it's not a bad way to represent rusted metal

You could maybe also consider using some bronze/copper areas of your models with verdigris. That looks really cool when it's done well!

Found this via a Google search for "rusted armor": https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1273413/painting-rusty-stuff

Look into Salt Weathering Techniques, they gIve a really good texture.
A couple of colored sprays will give you a great base to work with.

I did one coat of Agrax then a coat of Typhus corrosion over Leadbelcher. After that dry brush with Ryza Rust then a very small/quick Dry brush of Fire Dragon Bright. It worked on my Knight ok.

Typhus' corrosion + ryza rust drybrush.

 Drummernathan wrote:
Typhus' corrosion + ryza rust drybrush.

This.

I'm not usually a fanboi (ok, girl) for GW stuff but those two (along with Blood for the Blood God, and Nurgles Rot) are the most awesomest of awesome sauce technical paints ever.

Especially for small applications, like infantry.

For vehicles, sure look at things like weathering powder, salt chipping etc. As mentioned above, very many good articles (secret weapon etc.) I would stick with the technical paints more for infantry - that's how I do my Skaven for instance.

I actually like to do the Ryza rust first, then do Typhus corrosion over it, in case I get it too "rusty" (let the ryza rust dry a bit, it's quite orange at first.)

I use a small chisel shaped brush I picked up for this sort of drybrushing (~1/4" or less wide)

Also, for characters, and vehicles where you want to spend more time, or cover more surface area - I like to do the undercoat method. This is where you get a chipping medium and use it to weather and chip. You first prime your model, and basecoat with a rusty brown colour (burnt sienna works great imo), then you apply the chipping fluid to the model, and wait for it to dry a bit. Once it's dry, you do your main colour - let's say yellow - and highlights etc etc. Once that's all dry, you go back over areas you want rust to show, by using a damp or not quite wet qtip and scrub. The chipping fluid protects the under coat (our rusty brown) but you take off the top layer - the yellow - and allows it show the 'rust'. Then you just keep doing this all over the model as much or little as you want.

This is similar to the salt chipping/hairspray technique as well.

Once all that's done, you can go over and make "scratches" with a base of leadbelcher, and highlight the top of the scratch, or where it would catch light, with a silver. This gives a 3d effect. This also works for troops, I just tend to do it more on my vehicles.

Anyway, give the ideas a go, try some of them out and see what you like. I'd use a test piece to start til you get more of an idea how to do what you'd like. Then just go for it =D

Have fun!

So I've got rust handled, but I can't figure out how to go about painting fleshy/mutated/organic parts. Any ideas?

Drybrushing is probably the easiest way.