Manda's (Amachan) Post-Apocalyptic Terrain

I primed the Nuka-Cola Machines in Vallejo Surface Primer German Red Brown (73.605) as this will provide me with a nice base colour for the rust chipping I am going to do later. After the primer dried I applied a coat of gloss varnish over the models and when that was cured a liberal coat of Vallejo Chipping Medium (73.214) applied with a brush. I feel that applying the chipping medium with a brush gets a far better coat on the model and gives a better effect. Now for the basecoat, I airbrushed on a coat of Vallejo Model Air Red RLM23 (71.003). I then painted the coolbox and the nameplate with Vallejo Model Air Aged White (71.132). I then soaked each machine in water for like 30 seconds or so and started scrubbing the paint off with a toothbrush. Unfortunately the white barely got chipped, this was kind of to be expected as the paint layer on there would be too thick. I finished it off with a matt coat to protect the what I had done and to help the next layers of paint stick better to the model than they would on a gloss coat.

On to detailing. First off, a couple of touch-ups with some Vallejo Model Air Red RLM23 (71.003) & Vallejo Model Air Aged White (71.132) and then some stippling with some Vallejo Model Air Rust (71.080) to add a bit more detail. I did the screens in the top with Vallejo Model Color Black Grey (70.862) and the windows with Vallejo Game Color Black (72.051). I then looked up some pictures of the Nuka-Cola machines in Fallout 4 to see what I would paint in metallics and noticed that the Nuka-Cola logo was more yellow than I first thought, so I painted the name plates with some Vallejo Model Color Beige (70.917) to correct it. I painted all the metal bits in Vallejo Metal Color Burnt Iron (77.721). I then put a coat of Vallejo Model Color Transparent Green (70.936) over the screen in the top. I did the nubs in the back with Vallejo Panzer Aces Dark Rubber (70.306) and followed up by the doing the wires in various colours using Vallejo Game Color Ultramarine Blue (72.022), Vallejo Model Color Deep Green (70.970) & Vallejo Model Color Flat Red (70.957).

Now for some washes, I start by putting some Vallejo Model Wash Rust (76.506) over the larger exposed metal bits and did the rest of the models with Citadel Shade Agrax Earthshade (99189953018). I then applied a gloss coat to protect the what I had done. I then started to apply some streaks with some AK Interactive Streaking Grime (AK 012) followed by some streaks with AK Interactive Rust Streaks (AK 013). I then took a cotton bud with some thinner and ran it over the models from top to bottom to create streaks.

After I matt coated the models, I added a gloss coat over the windows and the screens on the machines. I then added a coat of AK Interactive Dust Effects (AK 015) over the windows and screens. I let this dry for about 30 minutes or so and then started rubbing it off with a cotton bud covered in odourless thinner. After this was cured they were done.