"Easy Way to Paint Corroded Bronze?" Topic

As the title says, I'm looking for a way to duplicate the look of old, corroded bronze (current project is doing up some Greek undead). If there is a way to do this without too many steps that would be great; I'd also prefer water based paints if possible. The names of specific paint colours would really be helpful as well.

Here's hoping! Thank you for any help.

Do you want a duller bronze with spots of or the whole thing in verdigris?

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madponies.net/verdigris.html

I did two corroded verdigris bronze statues not too long along ago, and the method I used was to paint them bronze (I used Ceramcoat "Bronze" paint)and then I gave them a wash with a thinned (with water)light bluish/greenish paint (I used Reaper "Surf Aqua")with a tiny drop of dish soap added to help it flow into the recesses.

For more details on these see my blog:
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Thank you all very much! I'm blown away by the options available. Now to roll the sleeves up and give them a try…

I have some Zvezda undead legionnaires waiting to be painted and wanted the same thing. Luckily, I picked up a Noch model railroad weathering pack on sale at a local model railroad store that went under.

In the pack came powder pigments and a water-based glass tube of patina paint. I experimented with the patina on a couple of old (very old) Ral Partha giants I had laying around and it turned out very nice.

I'd recommend that for the bronze, it worked very nicely for me.

If you are interested in rusting the swords (if you are planning on iron blades) I can't recommend Life Color high-pigment weathering sets enough. They have one called Dust and Rust where you get a deep rust shadow, a medium rust color, and finally for highly rusted objects a quasi-yellow rust color. All three blend together very nicely for a very realistic rust.

I have a cohort of Zvezda undead legionnaires that I will eventually get around to putting together and I plan to use both the patina and the rust on the finish. That will be awhile though as those models are really a pain to put together.