Ork metal

[Ugly Green Trog]

i\'m struggling to get the right weathered-dirty metal look for ork weapons and armour, i\'m currently just using a heavy wash of badab over boltgun metal and highlighting using mithril silver and boltgun but i\'m not happy with the result, i want dirtier and more weathered, any ideas? how do others do it?

 

[cybersquig]

try mixing a little chaos black and vallejo dark flesh (or scorched brown/scab red mix in citadel terms) in with the badab and watering the whole thing down loads...lots of layers later, and re-highlight the extremities...try that...

 

[skeeve]

Badaab is mostly black, you want it more \"orange\" and rusty. Try dark flesh, or bestial brown, or bestial brown 1:1 mix with some orange. Make it brighter in some places, darker in others. Remember that water, moist and therefore corrosion tend to accumulate in deeper areas and around rivets.

You can check my gallery, I have some pretty rusty stuff down there

 

[ogreninja]

u could try devlan mud mixed wi orgyn flesh then highlight up patches of chainmail

 

[Kester]

I tend to treat ork metal differently to most people. Here is how I do it.
Paint the whole area with boltgum metal and then wash with badab black. Next take a small piece of sponge from a blister pack and dip it into some bestial brown and wipe of any excess (do not thin the paint with water. Rust is all about texture) Dab / stipple the area to be weathered with the sponge. When this is dry do exactly the same agian with fiery orange, concentrating on the brown areas. Then when this is dry do the same again with mithral silver. Then the final stage is wash the area with griphonne sepia.
If the area has colour as well, eg if it is a shoulder pad, add the colour now. the best way to achieve a weathered effect is not to paint in blocks of colour, rather you should lightlt \"scribble\" over the area with your brush.

 

[Einion]

This other current thread should help:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/viewthread.php?tid=30524

Einion

 

[Mourner]

I use straight Devlan mud, over Boltgun, with a sligth drybrush of Boltgun if it´s too dark.