Weathering Archive

  • Adpeticon has come and gone, and I’ve (finally) recovered from the Con. Before moving on to GenCon and the other summer cons (as well as getting back to painting) I wanted to share my thoughts about what has become the best miniature wargaming con in the land. Adepticon is still...

    DrGabe's Miniatures: What I Learned at Adepticon

    Adpeticon has come and gone, and I’ve (finally) recovered from the Con. Before moving on to GenCon and the other summer cons (as well as getting back to painting) I wanted to share my thoughts about what has become the best miniature wargaming con in the land. Adepticon is still...

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  • Heya, I managed to finish up the details, weathering and varnishing of them venoms. For the scratched paint and sponged on the edge highlight color (VMC Orange red) and some VGC Stonewall gray. The exhaust openings and the engine tips I airbrushed with some black to give it a dirtier...

    Pain, Tin and Stuff: Dark eldar venom: weathered and finished

    Heya, I managed to finish up the details, weathering and varnishing of them venoms. For the scratched paint and sponged on the edge highlight color (VMC Orange red) and some VGC Stonewall gray. The exhaust openings and the engine tips I airbrushed with some black to give it a dirtier...

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  • So onto the application of pigments or weathering powders, I used the Secret Weapon Rust Red as seen in the picture above. First off let me say that when I looked at models ( I am talking about Ron at From the Warp) that have pigments applied they look like...

    Aurelius Legion: Aurelius Legion – Weathering Test – Pigments

    So onto the application of pigments or weathering powders, I used the Secret Weapon Rust Red as seen in the picture above. First off let me say that when I looked at models ( I am talking about Ron at From the Warp) that have pigments applied they look like...

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  • Having never painted battle damage and dirt on a miniature before made this exercise interesting indeed. This whole idea began with several posts by Ron at From the Warp where he delved deeply into the weathering subject and is by now an expert. I was inspired by his results and...

    Aurelius Legion: Aurelius Legion – Weathering Test – Battle Damage

    Having never painted battle damage and dirt on a miniature before made this exercise interesting indeed. This whole idea began with several posts by Ron at From the Warp where he delved deeply into the weathering subject and is by now an expert. I was inspired by his results and...

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  • My own Space Marine Chapter has been neglected for some time now, mostly due to me still not being happy with the colour scheme. The last I did on them (several months ago now) was to improve the shading around the shoulder pads and joints in the armour of a...

    Aurelius Legion: Aurelius Legion – Weathering Test Continued

    My own Space Marine Chapter has been neglected for some time now, mostly due to me still not being happy with the colour scheme. The last I did on them (several months ago now) was to improve the shading around the shoulder pads and joints in the armour of a...

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  • Hello Everyone, General Chaos here with a hobby tip video. A friend of mine who plays Blood Angels gave me a bunch of his vehicles to base coat for him. Since they wasn’t mine I decided to experiment with them. I seen a couple guides on pre-shading and thought I’d...

    Dark Future Games: Hobby Tip Video – Pre-Shading

    Hello Everyone, General Chaos here with a hobby tip video. A friend of mine who plays Blood Angels gave me a bunch of his vehicles to base coat for him. Since they wasn’t mine I decided to experiment with them. I seen a couple guides on pre-shading and thought I’d...

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  • Greetings all, I talk a lot about weathering and rusting but I realised that until now I haven’t done a proper tutorial on it. Today I fix that and talk about the four main methods of creating rusted metal out of plastic. I’m going to be using Imperial Guard tank...

    Pirate Viking Painting: Workbench tutorial: Rusting

    Greetings all, I talk a lot about weathering and rusting but I realised that until now I haven’t done a proper tutorial on it. Today I fix that and talk about the four main methods of creating rusted metal out of plastic. I’m going to be using Imperial Guard tank...

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  • Go to Tooltime – part 2 (painting) And so at last we reach the end of our hard hat odyssey with the third and final part of Tooltime, today, it’s all about finishing touches. For me there are three elements to finishing off a model, transfers (decals), weathering and basing....

    Pirate Viking Painting: Tooltime – part 3 (Finishing)

    Go to Tooltime – part 2 (painting) And so at last we reach the end of our hard hat odyssey with the third and final part of Tooltime, today, it’s all about finishing touches. For me there are three elements to finishing off a model, transfers (decals), weathering and basing....

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  • And so it begins… The first model of my Nurgle Warriors of Chaos army and it’s magic… Well, a sorcerer at any rate.This charming (if a little drippy) chap is Lothar Pneumophilus, Sorcerer of Nurgle (Nurgle, for the uninitiated is the Chaos God of Plague and Decay) and one of...

    Pirate Viking Painting: Sorcerer of Nurgle

    And so it begins… The first model of my Nurgle Warriors of Chaos army and it’s magic… Well, a sorcerer at any rate.This charming (if a little drippy) chap is Lothar Pneumophilus, Sorcerer of Nurgle (Nurgle, for the uninitiated is the Chaos God of Plague and Decay) and one of...

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  • This is it, the final part of painting and weathering my own Space Marine Chapter Rhino. In the last post I completed the bottom section of the Rhino, now it was time to tackle the top section. I liberally applied the weathering pigment to all the recessed areas where dust...

    Aurelius Legion: Aurelius Legion – Rhino – Finished

    This is it, the final part of painting and weathering my own Space Marine Chapter Rhino. In the last post I completed the bottom section of the Rhino, now it was time to tackle the top section. I liberally applied the weathering pigment to all the recessed areas where dust...

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