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Painting dirty black


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Hello

My new project for this year is painting a Nurgle marine army based on the Bringers of Decay cult from the Black Legion.

I want to paint them a dirty black ( followers of Pappa Nurgle should look unclean IMO sick.gif , but am not sure how to achieve this sort of look . Dark grey with lots of black washes ?

Or lots of dry brushing ?

I've looked here in the Painting Tutorials and cannot see anything .

Any suggestions ( or links to tutorials ) would be much appreciated.

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A dingy black (black with grayish-brownish highlighting) can be achieved by using Abaddon Black -> Skavenblight Dinge -> Stormvermin Fur. A dark grey (such as Mechanicus Standard Grey) highlighted some and then washed with Nuln Oil and Agrax Earthshade would also probably look pretty dingy, but I would make sure to use some matte varnish of some kind on it to quash any shiny parts.

You are essentially glazing the non-black ares to give the appearance of grime.  I'd actually suggest a very dark greay (4/5 black + 1/5 greay or brown-grey) and then wash using pure black in the recesses, and glaze using browns + greens.  Add in corrosion (rust and verdigris where appropriate) and the non-pure blackness allows you to add thinks like oil sreaks, rainwater streaks etc etc

You might want to take a look at Weathering powders, and special effect paints such as AK Interactive Rust Streaks, AK Interactive Rain Marks, AK Interactive Slimy Grime (Dark) etc.

 

 

+ 1 to that - MiG productions is a great wesbite and often railway modelling books have good examples.  For true hardcore weathering you are going to want to use oil paints at times though..

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