Hobby Cheating 90 - How to Paint Battle Damage & Rust Streaks 

I really enjoy these videos. I've been painting miniatures since 1987 and I'm still learning new tricks & time savers from these.

Beautifully illustrated Vince! Thank you! Your tutorials are really easy to follow.

Just brilliant! You have a knack of explaining without getting technical and that makes for a perfect tutorial for me. I bought a bunch of oils when I started my cockroach Tyranids to use as washes (after watching BuyPainted's tutorials) but since moving on from them (tut tut an unfinished project-but the gaunts were just killing me haha) I haven't used them much except from some panel lining on my Dark Angels vehicles. I am very guilty of being scared to weather and to be honest haven't seen a good tutorial demonstrating how it's done- well I can't say that anymore. Awesome stuff and thank you very much indeed. By the way I have seen a lot of your work on various FB pages so I subscribed to your youtube channel but this is the first time I have watched one through. If this is anything to go by I am about to step up my game as like I said you are easy to follow. I am wanting to start learning some advanced techniques as I feel it's time to go beyond the 'Citadel system' of layering and edge highlights etc- not that there is anything wrong with that system but I am just itching to learn how to do these advanced techniques. Thanks again Vince, you are a true master of the brush.

Great tutorial, thank you very much, as always. It's the first time I'm actually seeing you do a 40k model, looking eagerly forward to the finished model!

You brought up an excellent point here and I think its one a lot of people shy away from; and that's the weathering of something like freehand that you've put a lot of time and effort into. I think that initial instinct is to try and leave something like that pristine, but if the surfaces around it have been damaged and you have this perfect looking area its visually very jarring and right away your eye picks up that something is wrong. No matter how many times I see the trick with underlining scratches and dings with a light color, it never ceases to amaze how the 3D effect appears almost magically; you'd swear that if you ran a finger over the surface, you'd feel the damage.

a-mazing! This will be my go to method from now on. Thanks alot Vince.

That looks fantastic. I've been messing around with Ammo of Mig's Oilbrushers, and they're a really convenient way for beginners to experiment with oils without a lot of hassle.

Damn you are one smooth buttery painter man!

Thank you, this is great. I did have plans to build, but I'm now going to go back to a varnished mech and start to dirty it up a bit!

Used this for weathering a shield yesterday. Turned out well.

You've just earned yourself a subscriber. Loved your GW in the beginning history vid not sure if you've done more for them.

Some masterfully done basic weathering effects without using what, after all, are heavily pre-diluted oil paints(as the AK streaking grime, or the Ammo Mig weathering effects). The way you have gotten the 3D effect in the painted chips and scratches is great. A very useful tutorial, Mr. Daredevil(14 hours painting a freehand and you weather it? 8O).

Great tutorial - as always!

Very nice mate could you do a vid on how you did that skull looks fantastic

Mate these videos are so in depth, you make this look so easy! I've just gotten back into the hobby after a 20 year hiatus. I got myself a basic kit of Vallejo Game colour. Have you any tips for creating a rust effect with a basic set of paints only? I'm thinking of adding brown/orange/red to the gold or gunmetal for this but I'm honestly out of my depth 😂. I was a dip in the pot and straight onto the model kind of kid but I've got myself a wet palette this time around for a bit more finesse. Any help would be very much appreciated.

This video is super helpful! Several times in it you mentioned how you already varnished and planned to do so again before metallics. When and how often do you spray your minis with varnish? Do you always varnish before metal and if so how do you protect the metal?

I’m a bit late to the party on this one but, as ever, fantastic video Vince, great techniques explained well. I did your “ruining your great work” class at Nova, love your battle damage. My question is though, what would be your colour choices if you were putting damage on black power armour, say Raven Guard, or Iron Hands, or Templars or even Black Legion? Thanks

Hi there! Great video, very informative and I'm going to.give this a go. One question I have though is whether we have to use oil paints for the rust streaking. Is there any way to do it with acrylics?

Good stuff, i was wondering how you would make it look like the metal (that the machine is meant made out of presumably) underneath the paint is showing through. I feel like a deep scar should have some dull/dirty metal in it too.

I liked this alot!

Very good video, as always. Thank you for sharing. One question though; how would I tackle black armor? Would I rather go with dark and lighter greys then?

Hi Vince, did you ever do a full tutorial on this knight?

Its much easier when you paint highlights first. If you have little accident and spill white you can easily cover it with a chip.

Top quality :) thx

I noticed that you didn't use a wet pallet here. Was it because of the type of paint, how long you would be using the paint, or some maybe other reason?

time for a new paint pallet lol

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They don't heal themselves? Maybe you're not praying to the Omnissiah correctly and using the right oils and incense.

This didn't seem like cheating the seemed hard