Hello folks here I am again for the second panzer weathering class. As promised today I m gonna talk about weathering on armour well basically it is the same but with armour we should be extra careful. Also it is worthwhile to mention that there are a lot of styles of weathering. Personally I categorised them into 3
1st is clear style like nano or Luke (also realistic)
2nd is realistic style roman, Cyril and seb have the same style
3rd is the “artistic style” which you can find a lot examples.
Why I call that artistic because it is not very realistic but in the view of art it looks good in this way so a lot of people still use it. (personal opinion please dont feel offended)
It is important to find a style that suits your taste.
Personally I like the realistic style and here are some experiences that I accumulate over the years. Well because there are a lot to say I try to be organised.
The steps usually are
After armour highlighting we start with scratches then follow by armour weathering. (Rust & oxidise) and finally ending with a final fix up. Well we will start with scratches which are one of the most important parts of the whole weathering process.
As you guys probably already know the scratches is done by the famous sponges technique. If you are not familiar with the sponges technique you can probably find in my early article. I found it is important to mix “real” scratches with “fake” scratches.
Sorry because I didt take WIP photos when I paint my spacewolf so I have to explain the concepts with a lot of other peoples photo and even maybe drawing haha. Ok back to the main topic creating real scratches on the model is critical. See examples on nano’s super cool marine. Real battle damages include scratches and bullet holes. All these battle damages are easy to create by using a modelling knife. Scratches, bullet holes and chips off the armour are very easy to be made and also due to it already got shapes so it is very easy to paint. A perfect Examples see ~~~hehe
(ps sori nano i use your wip photo. plz dont sue me
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and also the real scratches will be very easy to paint
see
Ok now let’s talk about “fake” scratches which I found very hard. It is essential keep the amounts and the size of the scratches. If the size is too huge it will lose the illusion. If there are too much of scratches the whole armour will be very messy. So keep it in mind don’t overdo well all in all the quality is more important then quantity.
Ok the shapes of the fake scratches are critical here are a examples of good shapes scratches.
the scratches on seb Sentinel is outstanding ~!!!!! really amazing
so just need to know dont paint scratches into very very regular shapes
as our nature is to do every things in a symmetical very in here we are trying to be as ramdom as possiable.( attention seb use real mix with fake scratches on his sentinel as you may already found)
Also it is important the colour of scratches should match the armour. A chocolate brown colour is all purpose colour that can be used on any light armour. But if the armour colour is very dark like dark red, dark green or black I would recommend metallic chips or you can use an even darker colour . what is metallic chips? here you go seb is the master of this
and this is how it works ~ the main colour you use is boltgun metal with a black line on top very very light metallic line under it .
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good article . keep chippin
very good my brother! You are one of the best I think now at painting chips.
