Sup nerds. If you’re like me, you have adult onset diabetes from too many bags of Munchies, and you also like painting slightly homoerotic hunks of plastic and metal. I recently got onto the Ork bandwagon after Black Reach was released, and suddenly realized I’d have to paint things that were actually dirty. I had read over the blogs and guides and tips like you’re doing now, and had seen one of the tools used by military modelers (or “scale” modelers as they like to be called on their shitty forums) was weathering powders. Now, I consider myself a completely decent painter by all standards, and like trying out new techniques provided that are easy and cheap. So what the hell are weathering powders?

Take a high quality pastel chalk used in a lot of art projects and sketching, grind it up to a very fine powder, stick it in a bag, and then charge the shells of human beings that buy them from you after you’ve renamed them from orange to something catchy like Rustgut Ochre and you’ve essentially got weathering powders, or pigment powders, whatever the fuck you want to call them. There are actually a few suggestions saying you can grind down art chalks from craft stores and create similar products, but I haven’t tried it. I got these at a choo choo store! It’s actually a decent bargain. Most are sold in kits of 4 powders, with a general color palette like rust, grease, or mud themed shades for roughly 10 dollars. When you think about it, that’s like 2 Games Workshop paints, so you won’t hear me complaining.
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