"Chipping 15mm" Topic

Do any of you use the "chipping" technique on your 15mm armor? If so, how do you do it?

Thanks

I've done it by brush, paint light colour first then go over it by placing darker chipping colour within the original.

Worth the effort? Not doing it doesn't make my minis either less well painted nor less playable.

I seem to recall people using sand, and/or salt(?) applied over the base color (primer), while still a little damp.

Then, painting over that.

Once the final paint coat was finished, they went back and scraped off the little sand/salt bumps, to "chip" the final coat.

Never done it myself, but I think that is how people described doing it.

And of course, there is this! Just found it.

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For my DAK Germans I painted the tanks sand coloured and then used blister sponge (like you used to get from GW and still get from Battlefront) and after dipping in paint, wiped most of it off, a bit like drybrushing, and then dabbed it gently on the hard edges to leave a pattern of the panzer grey where the sand paint had worn off,, looked effective enough to me for this scale.

In larger scales I tend to paint, mask, then paint again. I have used salt and masking fluid. If you use salt, do mot put it on until the base coat is dry, damp it a little to stick, spray your next coat (if you brush you will probably just take the salt off) and when dry use a stiff brush and a little water to dislodge the salt. With masking fluid I use the sponges again to apply the mask before painting the top coat. I just don't do this in the smaller scales as I can't be bothered in tracking down and removing all the mask on lost of vehicles.

Put the painted tanks loosely in a box and then drive through twisty Welsh roads to games. Repeat weekly for 6-months to a year.

Everything chipped, no problem.