Dust - painted my first walkers

[tjantzen]

Hi All!
Here are some pictures of my first two walkers
For the cammo I used the pre-painted base colors, masking tape and some white spray.
I also used the hairspray method, oil colors and weathering pigments as well as some rust colors
- I might have gone a bit overboard on the beat up and weathered look

Ludwig




Pounder




regards
Thomas

[KeyanSark]

Very nice!

[Thib-0]

Very cool 

[Londoncopper]

I like them a lot!

[Dr. Zombie]

Aha!!

Your cover is blown tjantzen or should I say Tangopop?

As I have already said elsewhere the only thing I don't like about the Dust miniatures are their bases. Your painting is great though.

[Dr. The Viking]

Tooooooooot!

Those look great. Bring some for Horisont!

[Xenomrph]

Wow, those are awesome! Do you have any suggestions for how you did the weathering?

[tjantzen]

Aha!!

Your cover is blown tjantzen or should I say Tangopop?

As I have already said elsewhere the only thing I don't like about the Dust miniatures are their bases. Your painting is great though.

Thanks and guilty as charged Dr. Zombie - or should I say Frede 

[Dr. Zombie]

Touche.. 

[tjantzen]

Wow, those are awesome! Do you have any suggestions for how you did the weathering?

Thanks  
And regarding suggestions to doing the weathering....
First of all - I use a lot of the techniques described in this free weathering booklet
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=41757.0
as well as some techniques described on the homepage of MIG models weathering powders.

Basically I started by masking up the walker using normal masking tape and gave it two coats of cheap hairspray (The “hairspray”-method)

Then I gave it two light spray coats of first light gray and then white and removed the masking tape.
I then stated the scratching by applying warm water to small areas and then scratched the white paint using stiff brushes and toothpicks.

As the scratching only work on the spray painted areas, all scratching on the dark gray areas was painted with black paint using a very small brush.
Moving pistons was painted with a color of gun metal.

Afterwards the whole model was given a wash of brown ink (the new GW brown "wash" with the silly name)

Then I added some rust spots to the scratching using different shades of brown and rust colors - Again using a small brush.

The running rust was added by applying tiny small lumps of brown oil color (artist colors) and afterward brushing the pigment downwards using a stiff brush. Takes some practice to find the right consistency and amount of color for each lump but the effect is really worth the effort.

Next - wreathing pigments of earth and rust colors (MIG) was applied to parts of the model and black soot weathering pigments was applied to the gun muzzle, exhaust vents and mechanical parts.  

That’s more or less all of it – straight forwards but quite time consuming.

regards
Thomas

[Yuga]

Thanks for all the tips.  Very cool pictures.

[Nosegoblin]

Looks great!