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Hi everyone, the moment when I get to paint my Deff Dread gets closer, and I really want it to look grimy and worn down, but I don't really know how to proceed. I've checked what rust-related products AK has on offer (my prefered brand so far) and there are so many different kinds of chemicals I just got lost.
How do you people go about creating dirt, rust and grime? Any tutorial you'd recommend? Would you also recommend AK products for the procedure or another brand?
Thanks!

Thinning an orangey brown to a wash consistency and dropping that in the recesses is an easy way to create a rust.

I used to paint rust by priming the surface black, then stippling brown and orange over it before drybrushing metallics over it:



More recently, I saw a tutorial on a Reaper Miniatures blog that suggests painting the metal like you normally would, then paint patches in brown, then red over the brown, and orange over that, each time letting the edges of the previous color being visible. That worked pretty well for me:

AK has a lot of books about weathering in their app. Many of them have demos. In fact, they have so much books on the topic that it might be really daunting to find the right book for your needs!

You could also check some Grimdark tutorials on Youtube to start with. They have plenty of good weathering techniques on display. Many of them revolve around weathering products such as enamel and oil washes, pigments, weathering pencils and so on.

There are a literal flock ton of ways you can go about weathering. Depends totally on your toolset, skills, and the finish you are looking after, from simple orange washes to multi-phase processes with all sorts of chemicals, requiring hours and hours of work. Only you can decide what amount of involvement fits your workflow

I haven't yet done modelling requiring a mangy, rusted look, but when I do, I am probably going to invest as much effort into the rust textures as their colouring. Recently I have been experimenting with AK ground texture pastes, and they are amazing! I will certainly be using something like that for my rust textures. I also have weathering pencils which I already use, those are otherwise great but their effect really requires some sort of clear coat finish to seal things up, otherwise they just sort of fade out over time..

 Frozium wrote:
Hi everyone, the moment when I get to paint my Deff Dread gets closer, and I really want it to look grimy and worn down, but I don't really know how to proceed. I've checked what rust-related products AK has on offer (my prefered brand so far) and there are so many different kinds of chemicals I just got lost.
How do you people go about creating dirt, rust and grime? Any tutorial you'd recommend? Would you also recommend AK products for the procedure or another brand?
Thanks!

My rust method is this:

Use granite (amsterdam paint) or leadbelcher paint as a base, use fuegan orange shade liberally. Let it dry, Glue fine-sand (terrarium sand for instance) here and there, also fuegan or fuegan + a bit more orange saturation..Let it dry, then use some various brighter orange paints to dry brush the structure of the sand.

Weathering powders can work wonders... but they're expensive. However, there are two cheap sources for similar colored powders that are cheaper.

First off, pastel sticks. These come in a wide variety of colors and you can easily scrape whatever quantity of powder is needed off them with the back of a standard x-acto or other similar knife.

Second... of all things, makeup compacts and similar products. The colors will be heavily concentrated in skin tones, from very pale peach to dark browns, but a bit of perusal of clearance makeup sales should yield at least some usable powders seriously on the cheap.

Make my own from steelwool.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/761474.page#10421456
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/788908.page#10831248


And

Oilwash
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/761474.page#10393878

 tauist wrote:
AK has a lot of books about weathering in their app. Many of them have demos. In fact, they have so much books on the topic that it might be really daunting to find the right book for your needs!

Yeah, I had that issue with the AK books. There were a couple I spotted about rust and weathering, but then I noticed that pretty much all the other books had their own rust guides. So now I don't know if maybe some of them may be outdated or what.


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 Leopold Helveine wrote:

 Frozium wrote:
Hi everyone, the moment when I get to paint my Deff Dread gets closer, and I really want it to look grimy and worn down, but I don't really know how to proceed. I've checked what rust-related products AK has on offer (my prefered brand so far) and there are so many different kinds of chemicals I just got lost.
How do you people go about creating dirt, rust and grime? Any tutorial you'd recommend? Would you also recommend AK products for the procedure or another brand?
Thanks!

My rust method is this:

Use granite (amsterdam paint) or leadbelcher paint as a base, use fuegan orange shade liberally. Let it dry, Glue fine-sand (terrarium sand for instance) here and there, also fuegan or fuegan + a bit more orange saturation..Let it dry, then use some various brighter orange paints to dry brush the structure of the sand.

That is really nice. I'll keep that in mind.