How to Paint Warhammer Tanks

In this video, I will show you how to paint warhammer tanks for your Astra Militarum regiments! I have chosen to paint this in camo colours of the Cadian, however you can replace these colours with anything that suits your army! This is a relatively quick technique that doesn't need an airbrush or oil paints, so you can get your motor pool where it belongs - on the tabletop!
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Paints List:
Primer: Zandri Dust
Castellan Green
Loren Forest
Straken Green
Dark Aluminium
Nuln Oil
Chrome
Corax White
Titanium White
Screaming Skull
Ushabti Bone
Zandri Dust
Agrax Earthshade
Contrast Medium
Nurgling Green
Typhus Corrosion
Ryza Rust
IronJawz Yellow
AK Intense Black
Coal Black
Mechanicus Grey
Administratum Grey
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[@KennedyA53]

I've desperately needed this. Have a Baneblade thats been sitting collecting dust for a year instead of killing heretics and xenox

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Awesome - should transfer across directly!

[@SwtorSateleShanFan]

YES! Finally! A nice tutorial on how to paint bigger models without airbrushing. I do own one (spent nearly 500 Euros on it) and it just can‘t work out for me. Can‘t wait to use this trick on my Militarum Tanks! Thank you very much!

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@SherlockSpiner]

I was worried about how in the world I would make that camo pattern, THIS SAVED ME! Thank you sir!

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Glad it helped!

[@savagex466-qt1io]

@@ThePaintingCoach Hey bud nice job ! Could you give me just a lil more details on why you chose Contrast Medium ?

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Because that's the best medium to thin out the contrast paint 👍🏻 if I was using oils I would use white spirit. Water can make the contrast paint go a little streaky

[@SherlockSpiner]

@@ThePaintingCoach Question on the wash stage, would using acrylic mediums like matte medium be an ok alternative to contrast medium?

[@ThePaintingCoach]

I honestly don't know - my sense says you would have to use a lot to thin enough wash - I have only used matte medium with normal paint in the past. I guess you could try it on some spare parts/sprue

[@Mr_Waffle.]

Absolutely love that dead-easy dirty tread trick with paint then drybrush, don't need to stuff around with powders or anything, I just did it on my first leman russ and looks great, thanks!

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Awesome!

[@TitusCastiglione1503]

Honestly, if you wanted to save some time, cleaning up the edges of the camo stripes might not even be be necessary. In real life, I think a lot of tank crews would have applied any camo themselves over a factory applied case color. I bet that would look stippled like what the brush is doing.

[@CMTechnica]

Not particularly. Old tanks with camo don’t especially have much “bleed” between colors, it’s very much solid color splotches. Same goes with Cold War tanks. Thats because they painted the camouflage with automotive grade paint guns to cut down on the time spent painting the tank.

[@TitusCastiglione1503]

@@CMTechnica ah, I guess that makes sense

[@rataca100]

​​@@CMTechnica decided to word it better. It depends when and where and who. Field expedient paitning was done with what ever so could be brushes, mops etc fsctoried could also be done with what ever. The prefered choice and most advanced amy be using a airbrush but not everyones factories had them and if you didnt have them you just use something that holds paint. Field expediency can go into thr modern era as well, if you cant really oulla vehicle out kf rotation to change its oaint you use what ever you have to recamo it. (You can find videos of U.S soldiers in european exercises in tan tanks etc covering them in enoigh foloage and netting where you cant actually see the tan) Addendun: it alsod epenxs what type of device you want to replicate, seen painting tehcnqiues to mimick spray cans be diffrent from brushes and there isnt a exclusion to what device you use to paint them. By thst i mean you can paint brush camos with a airbrush or spray camos with a brush

[@Dagglestone]

I recently decided to paint blood axe orks in a cadian style scheme. I tried silly putty masking and rattlecans to do the camo. I can’t believe how cool it came out. I’m probably going to follow the rest of the tutorial for the color scheme. Your tank looks so good.

[@SM0RN124]

Ty

[@deandoyledeandoyle]

Holy crap. I've been putting off painting my ONE leman russ for MONTHS! Thank you 🫡

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Enjoy!

[@CMTechnica]

0:40 Don’t forget if you’re running track guards to put the camo on them Don’t ask where this advice comes from

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Great tip!

[@hellglazer]

Loved this! Excellent vid mate!

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Cheers mate glad you liked it!

[@theoneandonlyweener]

Thanks alot for this!

[@nathano2329]

New drinking game - take a shot every time The Painting Coach says 'Take your time.' in a tutorial :D. Great video, nicely done!

[@GordonMcLachlan]

Love the commander conversion! Looks a lot more in line with the new releases.

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Cheers Gordon - nice and easy too!

[@dustinzaccaria7644]

@@ThePaintingCoach hey great tune, will definitely try out some of the techniques. Just curious, where is the tank commanders head from

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Thanks - it's from one of the new set of cadian plastics - i think it comes with one of the field artillery units - that's where the arms also come from

[@praetoriandorn3154]

This is exactly what I wanted. Subbed. Thank you good sir!

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Thanks! Glad it helped!

[@Kgcottawa]

What an awesome tutorial. Thank you 🫡

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Glad you liked it!

[@britishlad3689]

A very useful tutorial thanks

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Glad you liked it!

[@lonstrickland6571]

Liked the method you used to dirty up the tracks. Thanks!!

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Cheers!

[@goforitpainting]

Cool as always

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Cheers

[@christopherpeery7436]

Dang that turned out good

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Cheers

[@Waltusb0yuas]

I dont have an air brush so i always paint my tanks like this

[@ck112358]

Pro tip, vehicles painted red get buffed M+1

[@denmasterben2348]

incredible!!!

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Thanks

[@SlocumJoe7740]

My Tanks I just do an all over Grey, then tape off the back half and airbrush the front (Everything in front of that first panel line) in Vallejo Olive Drab, both other than that my technique is nearly identical for the shading and highlights. Quick and easy, get a whole table of Leman Russes done in a night and a pair of Rogal Dorns when they release

[@ChangoWango69]

Amazing work 💯 thank you for this 🙏 question for the Tank commander did you just use spare arms ? Or did you use other parts as well ? 😅

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Cheers - the arms are from the artillery set and the helmet is from the cadian shock troop sprue - body is the one that comes with the kit

[@Mornomgir]

Except for a rattlecan for priming i do everything with brush. I frankly think that in most cases the airbrush makes the model "dead".

[@nordenp]

Just built 2 leman russ tanks and a chimera. Got them looking good and ready to be sprayed...the tracks...why on God's green Earth did I glue on the tracks. Why didn't I spray them silver before gluing them on. The way I feel looking at those tracks fills my soul with despair and I damn myself 3 times over for it. Please people, do NOT glue them on before spraying Anyway that was a great video tutorial, very easy to follow

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Top tip right here 👆🏻! Glad you enjoyed the tutorial!

[@justinsong7279]

This was so helpful to a new painter! Quick question - how long should we be waiting after applying the Agrax / Nuln washes? I suspect i'm not waiting long enough...

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Thanks! It really depends on a lot of factors such as how much you use, how warm it us etc - you'll know it's dry when it stops looking glossy - I'd say about 30 mins to be safe.

[@justinsong7279]

@@ThePaintingCoach oooo thank you so much. I've definitely not been waiting long enough (around 5... oops)

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Might be ok for some bits if you don't use much

[@robertrequardt380]

Trank you für the good video.

[@theredestshirt9726]

I’m going for a more Africa/safari for my army? Would i get the same results with Skrag brown if i did Zandri dust or something similar?

[@ThePaintingCoach]

I think Doombull might be a bit better than Skrag - I did a camo video on infantry too - might give you some ideas

[@BrugerJimmy-tw8eu]

do you have a recommendation for certain brushes to use?

[@ThePaintingCoach]

I use Rosemary and Co series 33 - if you can't get these where you are then W&N Series 7

[@victorzuim]

I'm still trying to figure the mediums out... did you apply the contrast medium while the agrax was wet? Why was that?

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Yes while it was wet - this thins it on the model so you can move it around and run it into the recesses, a bit like an oil wash works

[@imadequate3376]

Alright so my theory is confirmed. Prime in zandri, however I am going to be masking off and airbrushing the castallan instead. Thank you. I am, however rather annoyed GW doesn't offer a rattle can in castallan. Especially for the folks who don't want to invest in an air brush. I did a tank by hand in pure castallan and I ended up stripping it, the dabbing technique probably helps with this but I had alot of brush strokes and I didn't like the look. I did however paint some battle names on my tank and I did like seeing brush strokes there for obvious reasons as it looked like the crew slapped it on.

[@ThePaintingCoach]

If you are in the UK, check out Governor Green spray by Colour Forge - it is an exact match for Castellan Green 👍🏻

[@imadequate3376]

@@ThePaintingCoach states, I'll look around. I heard Vallejo has one that's a near match, I already plan on using either Russian Uniform Grey or German Feldgrau for my Kreig Command Russ.

[@Cordayne]

What effect does the contrast medium have when mixed with the earthshade?

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Removes some of the surface tension so it flows into the recesses better

[@cooljoe500]

What kind of brush are you using for applying the shade?

[@ThePaintingCoach]

That's actually a large drybrush from GW - but any big brush will help!

[@cooljoe500]

@@ThePaintingCoach thank you for your quick reply! I have another question. when you switch between colors during drybrushing, are you cleaning the brush? my brush takes forever to get dry again after cleaning it in water, which makes drybrushing kinda timeconsuming.

[@southpaw5483]

What is the reasoning for the "Contrast Medium" over the Agrax Earthshade Wash?

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Thins it down and helps it flow into recesses a bit like an oil wash. Reduxes staining making next steps easier

[@southpaw5483]

@@ThePaintingCoach Thank you. Is the "Contrast Medium" applied right away on the non-cured "Agrax Wash"?

[@ThePaintingCoach]

@@southpaw5483 yes 👍🏻

[@skyraptor62]

Can you Prime with Death guard Green instead?

[@ThePaintingCoach]

You can - it will be paler and take a bit more work to get the lighter coat down 👍🏻

[@knightsljx]

3:05 that brush is waaaaaayyyyy too wet for dry brushing

[@andrewwoodhead3141]

Wow ! lovely paint job. Pity about the subject matter😃 if you'd waited a bit you could have done a Rogal Dorn...

[@TabletopGameBreaks]

You must have painted it camo cuz the video is just a brush floating in the air.... #dadjokes

[@ThePaintingCoach]

🤣

[@J9m3s]

he posted!

[@ThatLemonGuy]

So in your “brush only” tutorial you still sprayed the primer on. Ok…

[@Ushankaguy9786]

Bruh

[@Ushankaguy9786]

Really man

[@pvtspoon]

I understand why you have them but those speeded up sections make me want to throw up. It’s a problem I have with many different artists that use this technique for their videos.

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Thanks for the feedback - I'll take it on board next time

[@parko246]

I think I can pivot to your style even though I'm halfway through. Any tips for a yellow and black quote unquote libertarian colour scheme? Really enjoyed your level of dry brushing. I'm a total noob and am definitely going to give this a go

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Hmm I would say spray it yellow to start with - if you can get them where you are, Colour Forge do a great yellow spray

[@parko246]

@@ThePaintingCoach thanks mate I'm in Australia. I'll have a look for them. For my first one I've painted it averland sunset yellow as a base

[@ThePaintingCoach]

Not sure they are out in australia - but certainly averland base is the way to go!

[@parko246]

@@ThePaintingCoach thanks dude. I appreciate the help.

[@ThePaintingCoach]

No worries

[@jamiehurricane]

As an ex tank driver, why in fuck would you paint it camo, then have a chrome shiny barrel?

[@benrichardson5662]

Because it looks cool?

[@Ushankaguy9786]

It’s warhammer no logic needed