Painting Damage

How to Paint Everything: Steel Legion Skull Masks

This is a step by step run through of how I am painting skull masks on my steel legion models. These are representing guardsmen from the Ministorum cemetery world of Certus Minor. Skull masks would also be a good...

How to Paint Everything: Painting Damage – Bullet Pings

This step by step is for minor bullet pings on Armor. My base color is unbleached titanium, which looks like it falls somewhere between screaming skull and ushabti bone in GW paint. The brown is burnt umber, it looks...

How to Paint Everything: Painting Damage – Frag Scarring

This is a short step by step for painting on an explosive blast mark. It's based on a mortar shell impact on concrete. It could also represent acid spit/splash corrosion with some green or yellow mottled into the scarring....

How to Paint Everything: Painting Damage – Impact Craters

I'm painting these Excoriators space marines who mark the date and place of damage done to their armor. Their plate becomes a shrine to the times they have put themselves between the Emperor and the weapons of his enemies. This...