Painting Scratches on Black Armor

[Keifer113]

Any ideas how to do this? bare metal? Would you use the same technique as if it were say, a brown scratch? strip of metal, with a white line underneath?

Thanks for any tips....

 

[pabloescobear]

I think if you mixed a little rust color with metal then the white line under it, it would look pretty sweet.

 

[Einion]

I\'d probably paint the entire armour normally, highlighted and shaded fully. Then put the chips in with whatever colour you want to show - dark, brownish grey*; steel or silver - and then highlight the bottom edges of each chip.

If you want to do a two-stage chip, with undercoat or primer showing, I\'d paint the second colour in first*, then do the metal colour inside this.

*Remember to do these lighter or darker depending on the angle the plate is at.

Einion

 

[nightsword]

If you look in the new WD\'s Tale of 40K painters, Fil Dunn\'s black armour on his orks are scratched up by adding dags of mithril silver to create the effect the bare metal is showing through. Looks quick and very effective. Apparently there\'s a web log on GW\'s website were you might be able to see, but the site is currently down...

 

[fildunn]

as nightsword said i did the ork in TO4G, but i didn\'t highlight it at all! just mithril on the edges of the black.
the best way of doing it is going to depend on the model, ie metal or ceramic or something else

 

[generulpoleaxe]

yeh man, as fil said, on chipped surfaces that are basicly painted metal the revealed metal will be quite damn bright unless oxidation has set in.

for a scratch on a silver metal (none coloured) surface mithril with a touch of white works.
keep the paint thin though or it looks realy poo.