How to do... Foam Weathering

Hi all

Since I posted up pics of my Khador Warjacks, a few people have asked how I did the Gritty/weathered look on the armour.

So here's my quick step by step of Foam Weathering.

What you'll need

A brush for mixing paints, a dry brush/old brush and some foam. For foam I use one of the off cuts from my carry case, but foam from a blister pack will work just as well.

Step 1 - Basecoat

Paint all the basecoat on the model and all the layering you might need to do. Bear in mind, this will messy and you will have to re-paint some areas.

Step 2 - Paints & Mixing

I mixed GW's Scorched Brown, Chaos Black and Knarloc Green (because this the base colour i'm painting over)

Now dip the foam into the paint. And dabbing the foam should give you the effect below.

Step 3 - Dabbing the 1st colour

Dap the area's you want to look worn.

Should look like this when finished.

This also works the same on the Red area's but show up more on brighter colours.

I used the Dry/Old Brush to prod in the hard to reach areas.

Step 4 - Metal Chips

Do the same, but this time with Bolt Gun Metal

Should look like this.

Step 5 - Fixing up

If you've done to much, you can go back and dab some of the original base coat colour over the top (this case it Knarloc Green).

Re-paint the area's which shouldn't be worn.

Step 6 - Wash

Once you're happy with it, given the model a coat of Delvan Mud wash.

Once done, carry on with Highlighting and Shading as normal.

Hope this is useful.

I've finished this unit now, so in a few days I'll post up the finished pictures.

Thanks Andy

Making a Quick Blood Bowl Pitch

At my club blood bowl has become popular recently. So I thought it would be useful to have as many pitches as I could get my hands on, then new players would only have to worry about getting a team together.

A couple week ago, I almost throw away these static grass paper mat as I thought I would never need them, Games-workshop cloth static grass matts are much better.

Measured out the area I needed (77cm x 45cm), then cut it out.

Then I marked out a grid using a green maker pen (squares are 29 x 29mm).

My first attempt I tryed to draw the black crosses without marking a grid and it was a nightmare!

I then drew the pitch marking in a red marker pen.

Then I trimmed the edges off to make it look a little neater.

Finished! and Im really happy with the results.

The paper grass matt cost me around £5 and I only really had enough to make one,

But if you buy Games-Workshops cloth static grass matt (and you needed a lot) you could make 6 for £2.50 each.

Long Grass

A few people have asked my how I do my long grass.

I bought this stuff about 8 years ago from a model shop (I dont think they sell it any more). Long grass on one side and cotton wool stuff on the other.

You take a clump and pull it off

Pull the wool off and paint PVA glue on to the bottom

Push into place

Should look something like this

Add static grass around the edges, so it blends in and hides any rubbishy bits