Scratch Built Vindicators And My Rusty Bumper Issues. . .

By Outremer

My trio of Scratchbuilt Vindicators.

These three are pretty much the only things I have left with the rust weathering powder I had originally painted most of the army with.  I really like the way the weathering powder looks, but have two issues with it. 

First, anything I put it on turned completely rusty. . . even places I didn't want the rust,. like faces and cloth.  It may be user error, but I didn't care for the lack of control I seemed to have when using it.

Second, and most importantly, i'm actually allergic to the stuff.  I'd start breaking out in hives and my lips would swell everytime I used it.  Even with gloves!  We'll talk more about the allergy thing in a later post. . .

I did some research on the interwebs about different techniques for actually painting rust and then, like a moron, decided to strip and repaint my entire army two weeks before the Indy open using a new rust technique. (But it seemed like such a good idea at 3am last night after i'd been awake for 24 hours straight with a sick baby!)

This is the technique I was following.  Kap's Plague marines look phenomenal!

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?s=1d3ee6e43bab9a12c98eef4e3403e208&showtopic=174788&st=50

The first set of Plague marines I tried it on worked out pretty well.  Still needed some tweaking, but I was pleased with the results. Then of course the realization that I was never going to get everything painted in time if I didn't start cutting some corners set in.  I needed to reduce the rusting part down to fewer steps.  In the process, I seemed to have lost most of the depth in the rusted areas.

To make a long story short, the rust areas on my army are passable/workable, but i'm not a hundred percent satisfied with it.  One of my buddies said he overheard someone at the Indy open commenting that my stuff looked like I'd "just painted half of everything brown.".  I have to admit I somewhat agree.  I believe the issues are much more apparent on the larger rust areas on these two. . .

So, would anyone like to offer up ideas on how I can tweak my rust without stripping everything down and repainting it all?