there are many kinds of ways to do battle damage, and I'm going to be teaching you guys how to do an easy and simple battle damaging process for your gundams. though i usually do the cutter type battle damage, there is also what i call melting. melting are used for slightly small bullet holes that actually got to melt through the gundam's armor.

materials:

>barbecue stick/ nail

>candle

>lighter (or anything you could use to light the candle up)

>cutter

so to start this tutorial, find a logical spot for this type of battle damage. because you surely can't have bullet holes under a shield right? so that is step one, find an area to damage.

lets start with prepping the materials that would be used in this tutorial.



light up a candle and burn the point of a barbecue stick.


blow the flame off the stick once it starts to glow red. if its not red, your wrong.


 while the tip is still hot, carefully pierce the area where you want the damage to be done.


slowly remove the stick once the hole's depth is to your liking.
remove any excess melted plastic and clean off and remaining amber.



using a cutter, draw some scratch lines in the direction where the bullet came from.
(if its was shot from the left, make scratches on the left side of the hole)

finished.


 more bullet holes on the shoulder armor. once properly dry brushed, you will see the bullet's effect.

finished product.

this technique is a simple way off adding battle damage to your mecha, great for bullet holes or explosions and simle dents and scratches. this is quite basic so you dont need to be a great modeler to apply this to your gundam, you just need a simple cutter and your hands.

 find a nice spot which you would want to do this type battle damage, make sure that place is logical and not some random area which you just picked out. now align your cutter and the area, and with the tip of the blade pointing down, twist the cutter while and apply enough pressure on it. now you should start to see a hole being formed underneath your blade. keep scewering the blade util the depth of the hole is to your liking.

 brush of any plastic shavings around the hole.

next, cut your own dents and scratches on to your part. [be creative]

after multiple cutting ^

for the weathering phase, i suggest

 dry brushing the piece with black, or paint with high pigment.

i prefer using flat black, or grey, because it has a good burnt look to it.

also try damaging the decals a bit.

 next, add dry brush a little of silver for paint chipping and scratches.

in this tutorial, i used metallic powder as an exchange for silver. this works the same, add a bit to the tip of your brush, then brush the edges evenly through out the piece.

 final result.

thanks for reading, till next time!