Metallic Clear?

[EricJ]

I am actually quite limited in the paints I\'ve used/tried, so I don\'t know a lot about all the ranges. (and I hardly ever use metallics to test).

But is there a \"clear\" metallic? something with simply the metallic bits in the suspension/binder and no sort of pigment or dye whatsoever? I have use for just such a thing

 

[Skrit]

Well Vallejo has Metal Medium (code 521) which is the base for making metallics of other colours.

Hope this helps a bit.

 

[vincegamer]

I haven\'t tried this, though I am tempted. I was in an arts supply shop the other day (Pearl Art) and they had all sorts of metal powders which you buy clear medium for and mix yourself. Would that be of interest?

 

[Legacy Account]

I think the Vallejo Metallic Medium may be what you\'re after. It\'s almost like a white metallic - really bright. Good for final highlights on metals too

 

[Drake Farstrider]

Originally posted by Spacemunkie
I think the Vallejo Metallic Medium may be what you\'re after. It\'s almost like a white metallic - really bright. Good for final highlights on metals too

Thats what I was thinking of using it for.

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by EricJ
But is there a \"clear\" metallic? something with simply the metallic bits in the suspension/binder and no sort of pigment or dye whatsoever? I have use for just such a thing

Not really. The thing that makes metallics look the way they do is a pigment, either metallic powder or fine mica flakes, with added transparent colours for colour or a coating on the mica flakes.

The Vallejo metallic medium is, I think, a pearlescent medium - basically uncoloured mica flakes in binder - which might do what you\'re looking for but from using something similar the effect often looks a bit spotty (it\'ll depend on how fine the pigment is and how you use it).

What\'s the application?

Einion

 

[Legacy Account]

It\'s best coloured with inks. It\'s pretty cool stuff and works reasonably well.

Still best as a final highlight though

 

[Modderrhu]

Hm, I\'m a little confused. It was my understanding that GW\'s mithril silver was just plain acrylic medium with aluminium flakes in it - no pigment. It takes a tiny amount of yellow ink to make metallic yellow, and that\'s a pigment that\'s easily drowned out by any other pigmentation. Maybe it just needs to be thinned quite a bit to be used as a metallic medium?

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by Modderrhu
Hm, I\'m a little confused. It was my understanding that GW\'s mithril silver was just plain acrylic medium with aluminium flakes in it - no pigment.

The aluminium powder is the pigment, depends on how tightly one defines the word.

Einion

 

[Modderrhu]

Hehehehe, good point, Einion. I was just trying to make the distinction between pigmented metallics and, well, non-pigmented ones.

My point being that chainmail, boltgun metal, brazen brass and all the other metallics are just mixes of mithril silver and other pigments. So, it could be considered that mithril silver is a metallic medium, used to make any other colour metallic.

 

[Trevor]

Actually if you look at mithril silver its silver flakes in a grey medium.

 

[freakinacage]

Originally posted by Trevor
Actually if you look at mithril silver its silver flakes in a grey medium.

i did, and you\'re right - it does