Grey Knight Battle Damage

[Bartali]

How do folks do battle damage to Silver Grey Knight Power Armour and tanks?

Normally I'd do paint chips by sponge weathering a darker shade of the base first, and then sponge some Boltgun for the base ceramite/metal underneath.

As Grey Knights don't paint their Ceramite, any suggestions for a similar weathered effect? I guess it's either a dark grey or a bright silver to represent chips? Not entirely bothered about what is technically correct, more which looks bettet

[baphomael]

Id say either a darker grey colour (ceremite isn't technically a metal, its some kind of weird ceramic/metal mix... so both metallic and non metallic chips can work well depending on preference.)

I suppose a dull steel colour might work. Vallejo do some nice dull steel paints... metallic, but not 'shiny'. That might work if done subtley. Having said that, a grey or even a creme colour might provide better contrast.

Of course, you could always try other weathering techniques that don't resort to paint chips... burn marks, rubble dust, and other forms of staining. It's perfectly possible to weather a model nicely without paint chips (and indeed, there is a debate on scale model forums about how appropriate paint chips are. But then, there is an element of pedantic realism involved in that aspect of the hobby that isn't all that necessary in our fantastical environment dominated by 'rule of cool')

[Bartali]

Thanks. I've been using various weathering sticks/powders to muddy up the lower half of Razorbacks, and I'm big fan of the Vallejo model air metallics - they get a base of Black Metallic with a spray of Gun on the top half of the model.

The top half is still looking shiny though, hence the desire to break it up a bit with some damage. I haven't sprayed a matt varnish yet though, which perhaps will help more....

[punkfish]

There's a chap by the name of Kublai who's doing a Fire Angels plog over in the 40k painting logs. His models use a very similar scheme and they are all heavily weathered. It might be worth asking on his log.

[Penguin of Death]

If the ceramite is dented/scuffed up/etc then it will still have shadows and highlights so maybe fine sponge patterned with a shade lighter and darker then the main colour

[steevn]

i use a brighter metallic colour with sponge and light brown/blue/green wash, like on my ven dread in my plog (see sig)