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Tanks of the Imperial Guard: Painting Camouflage

November 2003·pp. 58–59

THE SHORT VERSION

Mark Jones builds a temperate camouflage pattern with diagonal green and brown bands, using the hull to align the turret’s markings. Successive drybrushes lighten each colour while leaving dark divisions between them. Mud receives different tones on the tracks and hull, with gloss varnish suggesting wet areas. Rust, exhaust staining and worn metal finish the tank, linking the paint treatment to the constructed weathering shown earlier in the feature.

AT THE PAINTING DESK

Paints in this article

Every named colour below is searchable across the archive.

Chaos BlackCatachan GreenScorched BrownRotting FleshGraveyard EarthKommando KhakiGloss VarnishVermin BrownBoltgun Metal

All explicitly named paints and finishes are indexed under their historical source names. See the original for mixtures and application order.

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Leman Russ Chimera Camouflage Drybrushing Rust Wet mud Weathering

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