This is how I do my basic concrete look. The project is a couple of water tanks for the Adepticon Stalingrad table or it could also be used for a number of other industrial set ups. I’ve seen a ton of other awesome methods out there, but I have a lot of terrain to paint and don’t have the time to spend days on these so this is what you get! Hopefully it’s effective enough and helpful.

Here are the finished concrete tanks I have earmarked for our Stalingrad board.

The tanks are sewer access caps… nothing fancy. And not used…….

The underside of the cap.

Sanded the hell out of the sides to rough it up to take paint and create some texture.

Added hatches, doors, ladder and mechanicals. The round hatches are recessed 28mm bases. The rectangle hatch is a Plastic Soldier Company 15mm squad base, the mechanicals are from an old HO train car and access ladder is from an old HO train building.

Prime them black.

The base coat dark gray is then dry-brushed on.

After that I stippled on 3 layers of successively lighter colors for highlights and to give the concrete effect I was hoping to achieve.

I use an old brush to stipple on the colors.

I then stippled on some flat earth brown, here beige brown, to give the impression of dirt and streaking from rains washing dirt and rust off.

Then I did a light application of Army Painter Skeleton Bone to give the browns some highlights.

Another angle of the highlight layer.

Here is a close up of added damage and stippling.

Finished up the doors and metals with a dirty corroded look.

I decided last minute to add some rebar. I used a strip of screening and super glued in.

Here is the destroyed tank with the rebar added.