Mixed technique: Painting battle damage and wear and tear on miniatures

The best-kept secret of great miniature painters is the realistic finish of the different surfaces, elements, and materials they present. A cloth is never treated in the same way as leather, or a metal plate as a wooden surface.

Each material has its own way of aging, deteriorating, or getting dirty. Time, battles, or atmospheric elements do not act in the same way on all of them. Learning a good catalog of effects to imitate each of these surfaces guarantees that the final quality of the finish will be high and very realistic.

In this tutorial, with the help of our painter Roi, we want to show you the effects on combat armor used in a thousand battles, which presents a series of signs of wear in the form of rubbing, scratches, impacts from stones, metals, bullets, energy rays, etc. These spectacular effects can be easily transferred to other types of metal surfaces such as armor, vehicles, buildings, or shields, thus making the final assembly look more realistic and improving its quality. As you can see, we have only used our range of acrylic paints for painting battle damage and wear and tear. 

However, on the Green Stuff World website, you can find many other types of model paints for your projects, as well as all the materials and tools you may need: miniature bases, miniature paint brushes, fluorescent paints, paint shaker, painting mat, etc.