Highlighting past mithril

[DrEvilmonki]

I am wanting a method for highlighting metal past mithril silver (GW colours). I tried adding white and wasn\'t to happy with the results.
Any bright ideas? get it \"bright\". Oh I kill me.

 

[Jericho]

There\'s not much you can do without going to another manufacturer I\'m afraid. Mixing metallics paints with regular paints doesn\'t work so well. Black and silver is the only one that looks decent, and it certainly doesn\'t help here!

 

[Naukhel]

I just did an experiment on a mini, combining metallics and regular paints.
Using Codex Grey and Mitril Silver as a base, and work up, adding 1 part mithril silver and 1 part skull white for each level seemed to work all right.

Spectacular? No.
But \'all right\'.

 

[Ritual]

Get yourself some Vallejo Metallic Medium! Used on it\'s own it\'s very bright (nearly white) and completely metallic.

 

[DrEvilmonki]

Thanks ritual. I will see if I can find somewhere local that does it.

 

[frenchkid]

I know Cyril and allan use some humbro l mettalics for the last highlights. seems to work fine for them
Probleme with adding white is that it\'ll mat the paint and take way the shine. It also explains why black paints works well to do shadows, the less shine shadows have the better.

 

[Jinxed]

Has anyone ever tried first painting the metallic areas white, and then blending towards the darker shades with metallic paints. I was wondering one day if this would work.

 

[Ritual]

@jinxed
I haven\'t tried this, but I think it would look a bit off since the white is not metallic. You would need a metallic white for this (like the VMC Metallic Medium).

 

[Modderrhu]

Originally posted by Jinxed
Has anyone ever tried first painting the metallic areas white, and then blending towards the darker shades with metallic paints. I was wondering one day if this would work.

I\'ve tried something like this, but I drybrushed it instead of blending. Blending won\'t make the white metallic enough, but the drybrushing deposited metallic flakes on top of the white. The effect was that of a very thin layer of almost white that had been uniformly worn away to reveal metal underneath. Vallejo Metallic Medium, huh? Will have to get some of that.

@EvilMonki, how about not painting the extreme highlights, but polishing the bare metal underneath?

 

[Kendaric]

What you want is something brighter than Mithril silver in fact, white won\'t work for this. What gives you the \'bright\' impression with metallics is the amount of light it can reflect. Well, the color as well, but if you use only one color that\'s it.
SO you\'ll need highly reflective paints, I don\'t know any in acrylics, I haven\'t tried Ritual\'s metallic medium. However, I use Humbrol enamels (for me, Metalcote 27001, I think Allan uses their #11) and no acrylic I\'ve seen can compare with it for final highlites.

 

[cookster]

I\'ve always wondered the same thing. Im going to have to get some of that vallejo medium. I love the additives. Extender is a GOD imho when it comes to blendinig.

 

[MClimbin]

Another option for very bright metallics is Vallejo\'s alcohol-based metallics. They end up even brighter than the metallic medium. You would not be able to blend though, as the base in the paints are different. Layering might be good, as long as you keep the layers super thin.

 

[DrEvilmonki]

Thanks for all the advice. I don\'t think anyone in New Zealand carries the Vellejo paints but I should be able to get humbrol.

 

[Grumb]

Another suggestion, one that I got from Spacemunkie is to use Vallejo\'s Model Color Metal Medium (#521) to higlight silver and mithril. It works GREAT!

If you can\'t find a local dealer, there are a lot of internet vendors that carry Vallejo, just have to watchout for the shipping...

Cheers,
Grumb

 

[vincegamer]

Originally posted by Jinxed
Has anyone ever tried first painting the metallic areas white, and then blending towards the darker shades with metallic paints. I was wondering one day if this would work.

Well, my old way of doing metallics was similar to this.
I would paint the area white gradually shaded to black. Then I would just put a thin glaze of Mithryl over the top. It worked quite well actually.

Sometimes I will put a white dot on the final hot spot. It does actually work, as long as the dot is very small.

you could also try silver leaf, but that can get expensive.:flip:

 

[romain]

I use enamel 11 ( humbrol ) after mithril ( like allan ) but the metallic \" prince august air \" paint is the best

But the most important when you work on metallic paint is shadows ....

 

[bayrodney]

Originally posted by romain
I use enamel 11 ( humbrol ) after mithril ( like allan ) but the metallic \" prince august air \" paint is the best

But the most important when you work on metallic paint is shadows ....

Is that painted by you Romain??

 

[frenchkid]

Painted and sculpted by him unless I\'m mistaken.

 

[romain]

yes I have painted and sculpted this mini with milliput ( except the head ) this is just a WIP

 

[DrEvilmonki]

That is bloody nice.
The figure I am talking of is already painted. I will try and find some of the humbrol and try that.

Thanks everyone.