Salt Weathering

THE SHORT VERSION

Glenn More demonstrates chipped paint on a Leman Russ by masking a Doombull Brown underlayer with ordinary table salt. He wets selected areas, applies fine salt and leaves it overnight before spraying the tank’s camouflage over the top. Washing the dried salt away reveals irregular brown damage beneath the new colour, making the hull appear weathered through long use. The guide warns through its example against covering so much of the model that the effect overwhelms the paintwork.

AT THE PAINTING DESK

Paints in this article

Every named colour below is searchable across the archive.

Doombull Brown↗

Doombull Brown is the only explicitly named paint; the grey camouflage colours are not identified.

Back to the original

Find this article in White Dwarf 395, p. 99.

The “as seen on page 84” reference is inaccurate: Glenn’s Demolisher is in Parade Ground on printed page 78. The tutorial itself is printed 99.

This is an original summary. Refer to your magazine for the complete article, rules, images and painting steps.