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It looks better than before, sure, but any advice to make it look better is welcome. For the record, the paints I used for the damage are Mechanicus Gray and Abbadon Black. Thanks!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/589590/6720842.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/589590/6720842.page GMT Re:Battle Damage on Land Speeder (Pics) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/589590/6724125.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/589590/6724125.page GMT Re:Battle Damage on Land Speeder (Pics)
What I usually do is grab a lighter colour of paint, and then whack that on the model where I want chips to be. After that, paint over the lighter colour with a suitable brown, leaving a really thin line of the lighter colour. This gives an amazing effect, here is my method.

Mephiston red basecoat all highlighted and pained.
Paint Troll slayer orange (Blazing orange) where the scratches are to be.
Layer Mournfang brown (Calthan brown) over the orange in several very thin layers.
Very very very light drybrush of a dark metalic on the edges (If there are any) to represent fresher scratches.

(Not the best quality image, sorry. But you can kind of see the effect)


But if your paint scheme is pure white, then replace the lighter colour with black/grey, should have a similar effect.

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Sponge around on that edge and it will come up a treat. At the moment it looks to uniform and obvious that you painted there. It can end up looking something like this quite easily:



If you are going for a damaged paint job down to the metal underneath I would also suggest that you change the paint, or at least the order in which you paint it on. You would consider the black a "primer coat" like on a car and the grey to be metal. Reaching the metal would be typically harder, so there would be less visible. If you take that into account paint the black first then the grey. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/589590/6724375.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/589590/6724375.page GMT Battle Damage on Land Speeder (Pics) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/589590/6726604.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/589590/6726604.page GMT Re:Battle Damage on Land Speeder (Pics)
I use both these methods and they work incredibly well. The first will be the cheapest (sponge method!) and the second requires you to purchase a little gem from AK Interactive (I just started using this instead of hairspray):

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/587941.page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/572215.page

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