Painting chipped paint effect.

As a part of weathering your minis, chipped paint can look very efficient. It’s not as
hard to do as it might seem, but it will probably take a few tries to achieve the wanted
look. Chipped paint can be painted in a few ways but this is how I do it.
As you see I use both a paintbrush and a “sponge” to apply the chipping. The brush is
used where you want a lot of control of the chipping, just want to make a few
scratches or want to make scratches that have a certain direction. The “sponge” is a
piece of foam from a mini-carrying tray, but is about the same as you’ll find in a
blister box. I cut the foam to a broad point and nibble in the point with my nails to
make sure I have an uneven surface. Simply dip your sponge in black paint, make
sure you don’t have too much paint on and press/sponge the point onto the surface
you want chipped. The idea behind the sponge is that it creates an uneven and
random pattern of paint, so for as much variety as possible try to vary the pressure
you apply the paint with and turn the point slightly to make different orientation on
the paint spots.
Paint your mini to the desired level of detail and highlights.

Apply black paint with a paintbrush or a sponge where you want the chipped effect.
First I applied the linear scratches with a paintbrush and then used the sponge.
I then apply a bit of dark brown (I normally use GW Scorched Brown), to the centre of
the biggest black spots, or if possible to the lower part of the black spot. I know some
people leave out this step, but I think the added brown creates a better 3D effect to
the technique.
This last bit creates the illusion of light being caught on a sharp edge facing upwards/
towards the light. So you have to decide where you want your light source to be. On
most minis for gaming I you’ll be best of with having a zenical light i.e. from above,
but on display minis you might want your light source to be in front off or to the one
side of the mini.
Anyway, on the opposite side of the light, just in the edge of your black paint spot,
you paint a thin line of white or lighter tone of your base colour. Just as with the
brown spots, you can choose to do this only on the bigger chips, but the more chips
underlined the better and more 3D it will look.

For a bit of extra detail I normally finish off by adding silver to areas where the
chipping comes to an edge, where I want it to look like even the base paint have been
rubbed off, and bare metal is now showing.
Below is a few examples of both single scratches and larger chipping - Have fun