Dust To Dust: How To Paint Rusty Armour Plates!
September 25, 2014 by crew
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Many thanks for this, John, I never thought of using turps to work the rust pigment on to the model. I will definitely have a play with that.
Dust and mud would be a really nice addition to the series if you haven’t already planned it. Must admit I’ve used several techniques with varying degrees of success in the past – from stippling (very poor results) to pigment powders (time consuming on larger models) to airbrushing (always seems to turn out well on buildings for me, but potentially devastating for any existing paint job!).
yippee, alcohol is a good medium for pigments you say, great, which do I use scotch or bourbon? or does rum work the best……. 🙂
Seriously, great tutorial, would love to see a technique for getting mud effects to work on tracks, not just colouring with powders but caked on mud in lumps, if you can. Stippling effects would be another good tutorial, I have stippling brushes but never had the confidence to use it to create camouflage effects.
Crazy thing I use cheap vodka with my rust pigments, works great. And then you can always drink your left overs when you finish painting. Make sure you ask your parents before using their Grey Goose, they might get a bit angry
Hi John,
thanks for showing fast rust effects making. Usually I have been sitting with 3 to 4 paints and wasting a lot of time to get a more or less the same effect. Btw. won’t turpentine get into reaction with acrylic paints?
Great series so yes more please. How are you with planes? Would not mind some hints were they are concerned.
Brilliant and fast can’t beat it.
Thanks for the tips, now for the allies!
I enjoyed the tutorial, John. Thanks. I would appreciate if you could add or do two things in your videos: 1. paint the models before you do the effect, so it’s easier to see than on the grey plastic and 2. have a finished model that you used the effect, so it’s easier to see what a complete rust model will look like. Cheers!
I guess the point of this series was to show what you can achieve with the pre-primed DUST models following the advertised “you don’t have to paint them, just apply weathering” methodology.
It’s not gray plastic, it’s painted gray at the factory so you have can your primer legions ready straight from the box without even rattling a spray can…
Thanks for explaining, I haven’t seen any of the Dust models. They are primed a gray that looks like plastic…don’t you paint them at all?
For me, looking at a dull gray background to try and determine how a rust effect works makes it less stunning than the technique being done on metal looking parts, or more colorful models.
I have also used the MIG rust to “age” the ends of flamers.
Work great.
Thanks
cheers John good vid, i actually preferred the look you had before you sponged it! good to see the use of ‘brush #1’…… the finger………..lol i use a lot of pigments on my models i love’em,
AL
I agree with the others that its a really nice set of tutorials you have given us John. It feels a little short though. I would have loved if, as others have pointed out, you had a before and after picture so you could see a proper go at it and the results. This felt very short and uninspired, please go more indepth and dont be aftraid to make the tutorial 20 or 30 min long instead of the shorter format you have done previously. You have a great voice and a calm that works very well with holding tutorials… Read more »
Hi John
Just wanted to say thank you for your videos! I have just started to paint my Axis Army- and used your rust and chip paint technique. I am such a newbie when it comes to Miniature painting, between your video’s and my husbands help – My walkers look great! Now on to my infantry.
Looking forward to more!
Can we have some links to the others in this series, Ive spent an hour trying to track down the first video on the dust walker.
Ive watched it once but can’t find anywhere