Easy Way to Add Chipping to Your Models

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Some models, such as Space Marines, can be the same colour because their armour covers the entire model. To add more visual interest, you can apply stone chipping to edges such as the shoulders, elbows, and knees, which are most likely to be chipped.

Stone chipping using sponges is a simple process that elevates your paint job to the next level. This technique is applied once you have painted the rest of the model. For this tutorial, we are using an Ultra Marine that is already painted.

For the chipping, we used Mournfang Brown and the Notts Hobbies Light Weathering Sponges. We placed some paint on our Texture Palette, then dipped the sponge into the paint and wiped most of it onto the Texture Palette. Then we sponged the paint onto the parts of the model that were most likely to be chipped.

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Once this paint had dried, we placed tiny spots of Rakarth Flesh into the Mournfang Brown chips. This added highlights and showed that the chip had penetrated the Ceramite Plate armour.

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Highlight – painting the bright colours on raised parts of a model so they stand out.

Sponge Chipping - a paint-dabbed sponge is lightly applied to edges and surfaces to create realistic chipped or worn effects

Texture Palette - is a non-absorbent surface where painters water down paints and remove excess paint from their brush.