How to Make Simple Weathering Washes

December 20, 2010 by lloyd

As we have increased our Warmahine coverage I thought this video from Awesome Paint Job could be useful. In it Les gets to work on making washes to use on a Warjack.

It's a nice quicky so if you have 5 min give it a look. 🙂

BoW Lloyd.

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tinracer

nice – simple but with great results. More of this kinda tips would be great. Just in time for my guard tanks…

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jakubmb

Hm… I love the tarnish effect! Really cool. Gonna use it on some of my vehicles for sure in the future.

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elromanozo

I find that some orange (fiery orange, for example) in the rust mix makes for a brighter rust, which occurs in reality and catches the light better. However, be careful not to let it accumulate too much in any other place but the nooks and crannies… Unlike a simple brown wash, it won’t really tarnish the metal.

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wolflord68

nice vid realy helpful. Gust 1 question. What is the GW equivelent to these colours?

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beerogre

GW doesn’t do equivalents to the vast array of colours available from other dedicated paint companies like Vallejo.

Probably the closest matches are… Hawk Turquoise and Goblin Green… but you won’t get an exact match (you’ll need to adjust the ratio and the white content) and you won’t be able to measure exactly using drops, due to GW doing paint in pots, rather than dropper bottles.

But it’ll be close enough to give it a go.

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jakubmb

Actually Vallejo Game Colours are very close to what GW makes. They even mimmick the names (Scab Red = Scar Red or Firey Orange = blazing orange). It’s not a bad thing in my opinion and Vallejo paints are pretty awesome both quality- and valuewise.

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wolflord68

Thank. As for trying to measure the GW paints, I had no intention of even trying that. I was hoping to get the Vallejo equivalents so that I would be able to properly measure.

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wolflord68

one more quick question. What does VGC stand for?

I’m fairly confident that the ‘G’ = game, and ‘C’ = color, but the ‘V’ = ?

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beerogre

Vallejo… it’s the company that makes Game Colour paint.

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beerogre

Something has been bugging me about this… it’s a great video and a cool technique… especially the verdigris effect (which I’ll be using). Am I wrong, or doesn’t metal (by which I mean iron/steel) rust from an edge to the centre, not from a recess outward? What I mean is, consider your car. It rusts at the edge, where the paint has been damaged, unless it gets a ding, when it rusts in a circle around the damaged area. When I do rust effect, I stipple a little orange mixed with a small amount of brown on the edge of… Read more »

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elromanozo

I almost never use a wash on all or the surface of metal to be tarnished. Oxydation usually begins with water and paint chips… So the trick is to paint dots and/or streaks where the paint would logically have been chpped, and where water would logically run. I have obtained some good results on a cryx warjack, but I’m still figuring out how to put an image in these posts…

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beerogre

To post pictures you need to copy and paste the HTML or BB code into your post. You can usually find it in the “share” section of your image hosting service.

A Flickr account is probably the easiest way.

Hope that helps.

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elromanozo

Right you are, thanks… Here it is.
the photo is crap, I know… There’s (at least that’s the idea) rust and verdigris running down from the appropriate metal areas and accumulated in some corners, as well as where the paint was chipped (for the rust), as if the jack has seen moisture or rain.

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beerogre

I deleted the duff posts and sent a PM with instructions for how to post pics from Flickr… 🙂

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elromanozo

There…

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jakubmb

Hmm… I get your point here. I just spotted some rust on my poor old car today ;). I’m thinking of getting some of Vallejo pigments to do rust on my vehicles, but I use washes to represent that they’re dirty and it works pretty well this way. I also like stippling. I used it all over my truck to show that my orks don’t give a damn about cleaning the machine (I just used three shades of brown). My friends say that it looks as if struck very big outhouse, so i think it works 😀

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steelwhip

very nice techniques…but I do have to ask…for the alcohol-would any rubbing alcohol compound work? and the Water Flow aid…is that a Vallejo product or some other market item?

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elitekasrkin

cool i would of never though of that nice vid XD

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theportlandpainter

We need more of thses kind of videos I myself have been home making washes for awhile its nice to know alchol helps thin out a wash.

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beerogre

As @elromanozo is having problems posting his pics here… I’ll do it for him… 😀

Enjoy you mucky pups!

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elromanozo

Thanks a bunch ! I still don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Anyway, tell me what you think !
This is the plastic Cryx helljack kit, magnetized.
The broken tomb is made ot of plasticard, the ground is sand and milliput, the old crosses are accessories from Fenryll (a french company).

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beerogre

I think they look great…it’s amazing how a little bit of attention to the base really makes the model a show piece.

I really should do something more with my bases, but it’s hard enough getting time to paint, nevermind sculpting bases!

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