I notice that in most cases, very much like military models, the walkers in this game are best painted with an airbrush. However, I lack the funds to purchase one, so I'm pretty much stuck with brush and paint.

Anyone have any advice or links to good articles/discussions on how to pull off decent camo/weathering with a brush?

Thanks!

I found this article helpful for weathering:

http://thepaintingcorps.blogspot.com/2008/03/here-is-old-tutorial-from-old-painting.html

Also for weathering, I grabbed some MIG Productions effects (rainmarks, grease and oil, light rust, standard rust) and just followed instructions on their site and on the bottles.

I'm just about done my first walker (still have to dullcote it) but right now I'm very impressed with the results.

I haven't done cammo because I don't have an air brush, and I haven't seen really good cammo done without one. I'd rather not have it than have it look not as good as I would like it.

i have used, and seen used, to great effect, a tichnique called "stipling" for camo with out an airbrush. It involves a large or medium flat tipped round brush with fairly firm bristles, and esentialy "tapping" the paint onto the model. The camo comes out rough on the edges, but blending is simple and looks very authentic and field-applied. I like to add black or yellow or tan organic line work with detail brush over the soft camo to add texture and color contrast.

A lot of 40k modelers use this style for IG and Ork armies, and googling will get you tons of guides and tutorials.

You can also consider that WW2 camo was usually applied by troops in the field, with anything from brushes to rags. You can do a fairly simple camo using just brushes and it can look very appropriate.

Gimp said:

Yup.

I just finished painting a Luther with a jagged stripe camo scheme but not using an airbrush. Getting a neat camo stripe is a bit difficult, but not at all impossible, and the overall effect looks like a plausible field job, which is a something I really like.

I think that trying a wavy/blotchy camo scheme, with even less defined borders (stippling works wonders) should be even easier.

Try useing a drybrush. load your paint onto the brush and then wipe it almost clean. use a light circulare motion to apply the paint, increase pressure and paint till you get the coverage you want. not sure if its the effect you want but here's some examples of walkers i painted with this technique.

Most impressive, sir. Truly inspiring work for us non-airbrusher!

I have a question, theguildllc?

When you do the dry-brush circle with increasing pressure, do you seal the base layers first? or do you use a wet-blending on the edges? Or is it just successively lighter drybrush layers?

The stipling ive used looks good, but it doesnt "fade" well on the edges, and your style seems to handle the edges better.

@majorhead case; I do not seal the base layer first, if the base layer is coming of,f you're useing too much pressure. add some paint and try again. just remember that you can always add more paint but once its on there its pretty hard to fix. no wet blending for me, just increasing pressure/paint, less pressure towards the edges. hope that helps. once i get around to buying a compressor i will try my hand at the whole airbrush thing. hard-edged camo looks good too, try washing it with very thined down paints (usually one of the camo colors) to take the 'edge off'. will try to find some pics.

Man, theguild, those walkers look tight! Really liking that look!

Thats exactly the kind of look I was thinking of!

What kind of brushes did you use for drybrushing?

GW's (i know i know...) large drybrush. not the tank brush.

Thanks, theguildllc.

Right now my camo is Italian Three Color, wich is a hard lined patern, for the Axis, but i want to do a subtle green-on-green for my allies. Im going to try your way and the wash to blend.

I wish I had a camera that didnt make all of my pictures look like stains on a fuzzy carpet! I'd love to show how I do with your style! ( even if I do a terrible job!)

Major Headcase said:

This guy is right on target. Stipling is a very versatile technique that can produce great effect for very little effort.