What's up guys, welcome back!
In this video we're going to take a look at how to achieve this
sick
realistic
rust effect.
Which is both highly effective and simple to do.
If you're interesting in seeing how I built and painted the rest of this base
a very detailed video showing the whole process can be found on my patreon feed.
To do this you'll need to start off with zenithal priming.
Which sounds fancy but all you do is spray the model with a black primer.
Then once that's dried you spray again, but this time with white,
spraying from above at about a 60 degree angle.
Turning the model round between sprays so that you get a good coating from all sides.
That gives you this natural texturing on the surface.
Which makes a great starting point.
All we need to do is add some colour to bring it to life.
We'll take a bit of this Secret Weapon Old Rust and
thin it down slightly with some water, making a heavyish glaze consistency.
You don't have to use this specific paint, any dull purple will work fine.
And we'll use that to colour the oil drum.
Using it much like a wash, but we wont allow it to pool heavily on the surface.
All we're trying to do is give it that purple tint,
retaining some of that grain from the primer.
And once that's dry we'll apply another layer, that'll make the colour a lot stronger.
We're going to be painted this with a heavy corrosion effect. And when you're painting rust,
like in a lot of things it's important to have some variation to the colour.
So it's not just going to be orange.
You're going to have a mix of
different tones in there and that will give us a more realistic effect.
So next we'll use another secret weapon colour, this time Red Rust
But this time we're not going to thin this down.
Instead we'll take a bit of ripped sponge and dip it straight into the paint.
Now you're always going to have way too much paint on there so before you apply it to the model,
just tap it against a paper towel a few times to get the bulk of the paint off.
It's the same idea as when you're doing drybrushing.
Next it's just a case of gently tapping the sponge against the oil drum.
Keep pressing it onto the surface, trying to get a nice coverage over the whole drum.
If you can't access some parts of it you can shift to a smaller piece of sponge.
Although if you do that I'd recommend using a pair of tweezers to hold it.
It just makes it a bit easier to get it where you want it.
You can see it's actually starting to look pretty good just with those two colours on there.
Once you're happy with the coverage you can introduce a new colour.
And this time we'll use Secret Weapon Orange Rust.
It's a slightly dull orange, it's a lot like Scrag Brown
from the Games Workshop range but it has a slightly different finish.
Again we're going to dip a sponge directly into it then take most of the paint off
by taping it against a paper towel until it's only leaving behind a speckled pattern.
Then we'll apply that to the oil drum just like we did in the last step
but this time we'll be more conscious of trying to retain both of those colours from the last
two layers so that we don't end up just covering everything up with the orange.
Alright so I'll switch back to the brush to add a few more controlled details.
I'm essentially stippling here,
applying little dots of paint just in any areas where I feel we need a bit more colour.
If you like you can switch back to your darker Red Rust colour and apply a few more sponge marks
in spots where you think you've covered up too much with the orange.
Alright so now that we've build up a pretty decent rust effect
we can add some addition detail by adding a worn paint effect on top.
For that I'm going to mix up a dirty blue green colour by adding some of the
orange rust into some scale colour caspian Blue.
And just like before we're going to dip a bit of ripped sponge into it,
taking most of it off on a paper towel.
Applying it to the oil drum by gently pressing the sponge against the surface.
This is going to represent little bits of paint left on the surface that have
survived the years of corrosion.
It's up to you how much paint you want there, you could just have a few spots or,
go all out and end up with only a few patches of the rust showing.
Once I finished that I painted some of the Orange rust
into the recesses of those little raised details.
Just to help get them stand out a bit, but also to simulate the rust collecting there over time.
As a finishing touch you can just sponge a little of the orange rust over the top.
And yeah, I think that looks pretty good, I'm quite happy with it.
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