Painting Entropy (moved)

[Nathaniel Thorne]

I promised a good friend of mine I would post a step-by-step tutorial on how to paint rust and weathering and other such effects, so lets begin with rust,

This method of 'rusting' is so very easy to do, and requires no mixing or particularly special techniques, but still works really nicely

The paints you will need are as follows; Chaos Black (for undercoat, so spray or pot is fine), Scorched Brown, Terracotta (no longer available through GW but Dark Flesh works just as well), Macharius Solar Orange Foundation, Asurman Blue wash, Devlan Mud wash and Boltgun Metal.

You will also need a really rubbish brush like this

First off paint the whole thing evenly (ish) with Scorched brown

next load up your brush with terracotta/Dark Flesh and attack your model as if you are stippling with too much paint on your brush (for those unfamiliar with stippling, just kinda stab the model with the brush) don't even think about neatness!

Now you do the same thing again but with the Solar Orange

"but it looks awful"? I hear you cry, fear not, the next step is like magic... Wait until it is completely dry ( I can't stress the 'completely' enough) then liberally wash the whole thing with Asurman Blue

Much better see? If you want it to look really old you can do another wash of the Blue, but I wouldn't do more than two....
Now we go around all the raised details with a little Devlan Mud, you will need a decent brush for this to look right, you just want to accentuate the shadows

When the washes are completely dry, go back to your mashed brush and sparingly stipple some Boltgun Metal around areas of battle damage/ wear and your done

Next will be weathering paintwork.

[Nathaniel Thorne]

Right so you have got a very rusty shoulder pad, what next? Well I'm working on DeathGuard at the moment so lets do some battered DeathGuard livery, Pre Heresy the DeathGuard wore white armour with green trim so lets start on the white.

This is a bit more challenging than the rust effect, but still achievable with practice and patience,
Paint some really random patterns around the main section of the shoulder pad with Codex Grey

next go straight over the Codex Grey with Astronomican Grey foundation, leaving a thin line of Codex grey around the edges closest to the bottom of the patterns

now mix a 50/50 Astronomican grey and Skull White and paint a very thin line along the top edges of the patterning

Now we are going to start on the green trim and emblems
mix a 50/50 Orkhide Shade and Snot green and do a random pattern on the shoulder trim, for the deign on the shoulder guard itself, you can paint a freehand design (Remembering to leave gaps where there's no grey) or you can draw the design first with pencil and go over where the pencil line pass over the grey (if you do this, carefully rub out the pencil lines afterwards)

mix a 75/25 Snot green and Orkhide shade respectively and go over around the top edges of your green patterns like you did with the grey

When thats dry, go back to your design in the shoulder pad and paint small chips and scratches over the green with astronomican grey


this will tie it into the feel of the model as a whole.
now lets revisit the rust a little, mix some Bestial brown with water so that its semi-transparent and brush rough triangles down from any exposed rust work and over the paintwork

right so now you have a shoulder pad that is battered, rusted and rust streaked, lets add some algea/ mould to make it really weather beaten, mix 50/50 Catachan Green and Chaos black, then mix that 50/50 again with water, use this to liberally wash the whole thing (sometimes the wash spreads out like it wont adhere to the model, just wipe it across the model with your finger and it seems to settle down) and with your mangled brush from the rust article paint streaks down from any panel lines or recesses


Sorted

[Gabriel Lupus]

Scarily effective... and I assume it would take just as short a time to do the whole model. May have to try this when I (eventually) get round to doing more of my Orks...

[Scarper]

Thanks so much for posting this, Nathaniel! The weathering looks really fantastic, and I'll have to try it out on my next model

_{Totally cheating demonstrating it on a huge scale model though...}[/font]

[3ff3ct]

>snigger<

A great tutorial!

I have found that for large models, applying a layer of hairspray between the 'rust' and 'painted' layer allows for taking the 'paint' off in a random manner. It looks really good on tanks etc, probably would be more trouble that its worth on infantry though.

[Nathaniel Thorne]

Gabriel, it is really quick, the longest part is waiting for the Asurman blue to dry before doing the next part, infact for the first three stages (scorched brown/ terracotta/ Solar Orange) I dont really bother for the previous coat to dry I just bang them on one after the other!

Scarper, Haha yes well I was painting it anyway and well.... I shall have to get some 'smaller' stuff up

3ff3ct, Thank you, I have seen various methods with hairspray, one I really want to try, but I need an airbrush for is painting the whole thing metal, hairspraying it to within an inch of the 80's, dousing it with coarse salt, airbrushing it in the desired colours right up to highlight stage, then washing the salt off with warm water, if my wife ever lets me invest in a descent compressor run airbrush I may have to have a bash at it

[Nathaniel Thorne]

Just for scarper Here a a few smaller (40K scale) bits and bobs done with rust...
Barrles

Doors

Lamps and re-bar

And a knife attached to a sneak-peak at a forthcoming post...