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Battle damage on a black mini is always a bit of a pain. Normally you use black to show where the outer scorched area of the blast damage is, but on an all black mini that does not work well at all. I went thru about 12 DC the first time I tried it before I got something I liked (which I then screwed up with a matte finish, still not sure how I managed it), but since they did away with the inks and the limited experience I have had with the washes the way I used to do is not really an option. Are you looking for fresh damage, or some that has been there for a while? Because if it is going to be damage that has been in place a bit I think you could use more of a rust base (I am thinking maybe chainmail with a dab of brown and a smaller dab of red to get a good rust color) to replace black as your initial layer, then do boltgun with a dab of mithril right in the center of where the damage hit. Since I have been stripping my army to magnetize it and repaint it anyways, I can play around with just priming and painting up some DC to use as test minis for a couple of ideas. If I screw em up I can always just restrip them.

Yeah, I was thinking a line of grey then tin bits then bolt gun metal to mithril then maybe a little White

 

So basically the first line of grey would be the edge of the damage then the tin bitz for a more rusty look towards the edge then bolt gun in the centre with mithril right in the centre for where the damage hit.. I mean this is all in theory, I havent tried it yet but it think if done right it will give the damage lots of depth!

You mean like so?

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/OwlandMoonGuy/Angels%20Sanguine/03-PowerSword-1.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/OwlandMoonGuy/Angels%20Sanguine/05-FeelingNoPain.jpg

 

-OMG

 

 

Hmm, sort of... The battle damage I want to replicate is metal tho, it's like the paint has been blasted off and cut into!

 

Nice model though bro.

Nice model there OMG, but it looks pretty blue to me instead of black. I really like the collapsed eye. And Drop, I have about 8 DC primed now, waiting on em to dry to give em a coat of black and play around with some battle damage on em. I should have some pics up tomarrow.
Nice model there OMG, but it looks pretty blue to me instead of black. I really like the collapsed eye. And Drop, I have about 8 DC primed now, waiting on em to dry to give em a coat of black and play around with some battle damage on em. I should have some pics up tomarrow.

 

Cool.. Wish I was more motivated to get painting, I've had 5 dc and a dc dread painted black for a week now and only done

A bit of bone and blood drops etc on one of them and the dread! Haha, I plan on getting them finished this week but I'm in no rush really so I'm just taking my time and making sure I have all the techniques down for all the sections of the models, I'm especially into painting bone so I'm gonna take a while getting the bone painting technique down.

I would check this out for painting bone:

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...showarticle=485

I am using a slightly modified version, but it is already coming out FAR better than any previous attempt I have taken at bone. I did up three different minis who had large greaves with three different types of battle damage (wear line, jagged line, impact site) with three different paint shcemes( a codex grey, boltgun, chainmail; a regular boltgun, chainmail; and a rust type (chainmail, dwarven bronze, dab of scortched brown, dab of blood red) boltgun, chainmail, I also did this one with a sepia wash on the back). Unfortunately the sun and my camera are not cooperating. The sun is bright enough that the flash washes them out completely, but not bright enough that I can do it without the flash. And the stupid camera is focusing on everything EXCEPT the minis. I'll give it another shot tonight when I get back from my lodge officer's meeting when it is dark and I can use the flash better, but if that does not work I will have to wait until tomorrow and hope for better light. I already tried putting a background up as well, but I may have to use something like my furiouso as a focus point since I know my camera likes it.

I would check this out for painting bone:

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...showarticle=485

I am using a slightly modified version, but it is already coming out FAR better than any previous attempt I have taken at bone. I did up three different minis who had large greaves with three different types of battle damage (wear line, jagged line, impact site) with three different paint shcemes( a codex grey, boltgun, chainmail; a regular boltgun, chainmail; and a rust type (chainmail, dwarven bronze, dab of scortched brown, dab of blood red) boltgun, chainmail, I also did this one with a sepia wash on the back). Unfortunately the sun and my camera are not cooperating. The sun is bright enough that the flash washes them out completely, but not bright enough that I can do it without the flash. And the stupid camera is focusing on everything EXCEPT the minis. I'll give it another shot tonight when I get back from my lodge officer's meeting when it is dark and I can use the flash better, but if that does not work I will have to wait until tomorrow and hope for better light. I already tried putting a background up as well, but I may have to use something like my furiouso as a focus point since I know my camera likes it.

 

Ok thanks for that..

 

'lodge officers meeting' are you a Mason?

Pretty basic from me but its seems to turn out alright. I just go at the mini with a scalpel for nicks and cuts and/or drill for bullet holes. Theses are then painted Boltgun Metal and highlighted with Chainmail, sometimes with a wash of Badab Black. For smaller chips they are just painted on with the above colours, you just have to put them where chips would realistically occur.

My attempts:-

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh190/MidnightRunner81/SDC10713.jpg

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh190/MidnightRunner81/SDC10704.jpg

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh190/MidnightRunner81/SDC10709.jpg

Pretty basic from me but its seems to turn out alright. I just go at the mini with a scalpel for nicks and cuts and/or drill for bullet holes. Theses are then painted Boltgun Metal and highlighted with Chainmail, sometimes with a wash of Badab Black. For smaller chips they are just painted on with the above colours, you just have to put them where chips would realistically occur.

My attempts:-

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh190/MidnightRunner81/SDC10713.jpg

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh190/MidnightRunner81/SDC10704.jpg

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh190/MidnightRunner81/SDC10709.jpg

 

Really nice DC models.. How did you do the PF?

Cheers bud, was a bit of an experiment, another angle:-

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh190/MidnightRunner81/SDC10707.jpg

Of the three big drips:-

Right drip; with Tamiya Clear Red (excellent for the blood effects) and PVA glue. I mixed it together until it was really gloopy and starting to go off, and dragged it down from the fist to get the dripping effect.

 

Middle drip; green stuff moulded into the drip shape, painted black and speccled white, the covered in Tamiya Clear Red.

 

Left drip; I used a small wire then coated it in green stuff, the followed the black/whit/clear red for painting again.

 

When dry I then coated them all in super glue to give a nice hard coat, tbh they all seem pretty durable with the superglue over them. They haven't snapped yet and he gets gamed every other week ;) (just give him the kiss of death I bet)

Cheers bud, was a bit of an experiment, another angle:-

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh190/MidnightRunner81/SDC10707.jpg

Of the three big drips:-

Right drip; with Tamiya Clear Red (excellent for the blood effects) and PVA glue. I mixed it together until it was really gloopy and starting to go off, and dragged it down from the fist to get the dripping effect.

 

Middle drip; green stuff moulded into the drip shape, painted black and speccled white, the covered in Tamiya Clear Red.

 

Left drip; I used a small wire then coated it in green stuff, the followed the black/whit/clear red for painting again.

 

When dry I then coated them all in super glue to give a nice hard coat, tbh they all seem pretty durable with the superglue over them. They haven't snapped yet and he gets gamed every other week ;) (just give him the kiss of death I bet)

 

Awesome.. So did you use the PF from the BA sprue?

Yeah I thought it was a different PF. I wanna kit out as many of my DC with power weapons as I can but the problem is I only have the ones on the sprue so it's gonna be difficult keeping the models individual as I'm pretty limited as to what poses I can put them in as I have already used all three of them (I'm using two boxes of DC for one unit)

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