Dust to Dust: Weathering Axis Armour Plates
August 14, 2014 by crew
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Useful advice. Thanks. I shall certainly give it a try on some of my Dust models.
Great
what was the name of the dust and varnish?
The pigment powder is Mig and the Varnish is Vallejo 🙂
Thanks
Nice. I was just about to get started with painting and weathering my Dust models, so this is great info.
Brilliant stuff. I’ve used sponges for years but have never seen that dragging tecnique you used to make scratches etc. Consider that nicked.
“See how strong I am? That’s amazing, isn’t it. Yeah. Everybody loves me because I am that strong.”
That cracked me up.
I cannot stress enough what a great compliment these videos are to Romain’s. For those of us in the ‘way down here’ level of painting, these tutorials tuck in nicely. Thanks!
Im gonna use this technic on my bold action Puma…
Another nail in the coffin for pristine looking tanks on the tabletop. Thanks great easy to follow tutorial.
Oh yes and more please
I missed part one at some point…
Hog hair brushes are surprisingly versatile in terrain work and on larger models — and they’re so cheap you don’t feel bad about destroying them.
How would you recommend attacking the mold lines on these pre-primed models?
I think, unless your going for a full re-paint I would just leave them. For the simple fact of it may be hard to colour match the base primer after you remove them. But if you find the right paint then I would use a bit of fine sandpaper and gently smooth them down.
Nice. Great tutorial (and part one). I don’t play Dust (or anything with tanks) but these techniques are easily transposed to other stuff… i’m thinking my Deadzone scenery
Nice work there, some very interesting techniques. I’m going to have to give the sponge thing a try – I have always tried to do this with a brush to an OK effect, but I just bought some new cheap sponges to tear up and give it a red hot go on my new Dust stuff. Also, I liked the way you used pigments (different to some other videos I’ve seen). – I might have to get some of these to try too. Thanks. 🙂
Thanks for this! The pigment thing is something I’ve never looked into before and i think i will try it on some models, looks awesome!
Does anyone has a link to the first video?
As always a great video , picked a few things I hadn’t considered before
Cool tips again, great video. 🙂
Fantastic Video , going to use these technics for my Dust Models and Bolt Action.
Great video. Never got arround to try spunging, but I will try to achieve a used winter look on tanks. Primed white and then swipe-spunge olive drab to show the original paint coming thru. Then work from there. I was totally like “OH MY GOD HE RUINED IT!” when you applied the nuln oil. But after it was dry it looked awesome. Then came the pigment powder (one thing I only heard of but never used till today) and I was again “NOW HE DEFINITELY RUINED IT!”, but again it looked awesome later. I guess what I take away from… Read more »
Pigments generally need something to fix them, especially if your handling the model. But there are so many ways of fixing the stuff it’s hard to pick one. Types of alcohol work well without changing the tone of the pigment too much.
Great stuiff, can wait to try this with my walkers (and other stuff). For other ideas, how about showing how tro bake battle damage (ie bullet hole, blast marks ect).
Thanks and keep up the good work
Excellent info here, I’ll recall these tips when I’m working on some of my 40k stuff. More of these videos would be great. @johnlyons Thanks!
Sponging is a great method. I need to get some pigment powder to try!
I would love a video on the steps needed to paint a camo scheme on the models. The gray primer is great but I’ve been thinking of doing a arctic based theme and I would hate to ruin the nice transfers with a full re-spray. But still a great video 🙂
Liking the series! -Andrew Haught
This series of videos is my favorite. Thanks, guys!