I don't know how many times I've been asked "What would you use for black armor?" whenever I've shared any info on chipping or weathering tanks and other armored models. It's always been hard for me to give a straight answer for people since, well, I don't have an army of predominantly black armor! To that end, I've decided that I would share a few swatch examples of black with different colors of battle damage I've comped together in Photoshop.
These swatches all share the same basic elements. They're all black with bone highlights. The highlight color is really up to you and what you would normally use for your armor, in my case, I use bone for my Sons of Medusa and have used that on the Battle Damage I've done in the past!
Orange-Brown
Orange
Camo Green
Dark Grey
Metallic
You should take the ones that look most promising to you and do some test pieces for your models before getting too hot and heavy with weathering your models! I hope this helps those of your who've been struggling to come up with a good battle damage color and possibly inspires others to give the technique a go yourself!
Anyone have any great new weathering ideas or links? I've been out of the hobby a while and am looking for a lot of inspiration to get my brush going again!
