armor tinting

[doomguide11]

does anyone know how some people get the color tint to some of there metal armor they paint. I don\'t have an example to show but it looks like normal silver armor but it can have tints of other colors like blue and purple in it. I\'ve also seen it done with weapons.

 

[noneedforaname]

two ways of doing it and both involve inks.

1)mix your chosen colour of ink with silver and then paint on the model.

2)paint silver, glaze with a coloured ink.

then just highlight back up to silver as normal.

a tad simplistic but you get the idea

 

[lahatiel]

Many painters use washes and/or glazes over normal metallics. If you are going to try to mix up your own metallic colors, though, what might work better than silver could be the Metallic Medium from the Vallejo Model Color range.

Do you have a particular example you\'re trying to emulate?

 

[forrix]

whatever you do DON\"t use inks to glaze your metals...just paint on your base coat (boltgun metal) then shade using very diluted black paint and if you feel like it a color of your choice(like purple or green the JRN way wich i always use) after you shaded your basecoat just simply highlight up to mithril going through chainmail building up slowly. After that glaze the area with a very diluted (1part paint to 8-10 parts water if you\'re after a very smooth finish) with what ever color you prefer...after glazing just re hi light and do this back and forth untill it looks right...check out JRN\'s site for a lot of other usefull stuff

 

[Avelorn]

You can use inks to glaze metals. Depends on the result you\'re after.. if you find them to glossy you can try using a matt medium to dull them down.

 

[Onis Lair]

I don\'t have a problem with useing inks on metal. In fact if your careful with ink you can \"stain\" the metal quite nicely. The key, be it ink or thin paint, is to build the colors up slowly and in layers as you highlight the metals.

 

[matty1001]

I use VMC purple, mixed with GW red ink (about 75:25) then a tiny drop of black to tone it down. Water that down about 8:1, put it on the brush then drain all the excess water off then brush over the entire metal area, next glaze don\'t do the full area, just a bit less, until you are just glazing the deepest shadows. This will give a very smooth blend over the entire area.
Then i usually rehighlight the tips with VMC silver, VMC silver/white and VMC metallic medium.

 

[vincegamer]

I\'ve used metalic purple nail polish. It actually looks very nice but is a real pain in the neck to work with.

 

[EricJ]

I\'ve be experimenting with this lately myself, and I\'ve found it\'s really quite simple, and just a matter of a few glazes of watered down paint. Don\'t need inks, and since I don\'t own any, I can\'t really comment on how they\'d work for it one way or the other.

 

[DrEvilmonki]

I use both paints and inks for my washes.

 

[forrix]

well i guess that sums it up its just up to your personal preference...im with eric on this one vmc in comination with just watered down acrilycs work best for me

 

[GalenLeonatus]

The way i do this is out of an old White Dwarf and it was for the Imrik model for WFB. Started off with a blue basecoat (regal blue in this case) and mixed in mithril silver or chainmail for each highlight stage, then washed with a thin wash of blue ink & regal blue. Hope this helps.