NMM Recipes

[Flashman14]

A ton of people are interested in NMM these days, myself included. The hardest part though, to get started, is deciding on the pallette. What brands of paints and what recipes are people using to create it (white metals in particular: steel, iron, etc) ? I\'ve seen GW Shadow Gray used as the darkest and then highlighted up with white. Also there was an article that listed a 4-5 different Vallejo colors mixed into each other one after another.
Personally I\'ve tried both and then both followed by a gloss varnish to an OK effect. Does anybody use ink at any stage of this process? Blue? thinned black? a mix?
What else are people using? Doesn\'t it also seem that many NMM models, even one with very good scores, just look like highlighted gray? (in other words because armor and blades are painted and highlighted gray the eye is \"fooled\" into reading it as metal) I\'ve liked most of these but they don\'t look metallic necessarily and yet there are others that truly look like metal like the shield on Goatman\'s Highelv Princess.
If some of the more successful users of NMM could jot down the recipe for various parts of their models I\'m sure I wouldn\'t be the only one who is appreciative. Thanks in advance . . .!

 

[sam-man]

For NMM gold i start off with GW Leporus brown as my base
THen i do my first highlight with golden yellow, then i curve SUnburst yellow around all the um.....curves and corners.
then i mix a bit of white in with it and highlight my curves then highlight the curves with a final highlihgt of white..

Sometimes if your doing somethign relativley round, like a arm muscle it looks good if you highlight the bottom half, and leave the top half your brown color...
but when you do your first couple of highlights paint a thin yellow line around the edge of the brown area...

Im currently painting a Necron Deceiver in NMM gold, and his head in NMM silver...

 

[Avicenna]

Hmmmm I am gonna have to try the gold

One thing that I am most definitely intrigued by is how people are painting the NMM chrome... it looks like a lot of work, but is stunning none the less!

Any tips would be more than welcome!

 

[sam-man]

for chrome highlight the top half light, and the bottom half dark...
obviously...

but add some light blues to your greys, like GW Ice blue...

then in the middle of your two halfs paint a very dark blue sideways S. The blue shoul dbe almost black..
This also looks good if you highlight the line down, if that makes any sence

Strart off with a lighter shade dark blue, and highlight down to the really dark blue..

There was someone who painted chrome and posted their pics in coolmini, cant remember who..

i suggest yo uspend a while going through some of the pics, if your lucky you\'ll come across it and you will see what i mean

 

[figurephenatix]

NMM

Metal = Shadow Gray or Shadow Gray and a little Black (for Dark Charcoal Base), then just shade up with 4 to 8 layers of white added (a little each time).

Chainmail = Tough, still playing with this

Gold = Used to be Golden Yellow and thinned Chestnut Ink, but this is very yellow looking for gold . . .

New Realistic Golds (thanks Keshley! ) = Base with brown (Bestial or so), blend up with Snakebite Leather, then Bubonic Brown (it has yellows in it), then Bubonic Brown split with Bleached Bone, then just Bleached Bone (it also has yellows in it), finally as a final highlight, White.

Just what I use, although I am still learning as most of us are.

Would love to hear how to make some nice Bronze, Brass, and Copper NMM?

 

[elouchard]

For a brass look, you can use
- base of snakebite leather
- wash of full strength brown ink
- thinned snakebite, blended to even out color towards highlights
- gradual mix of snakebite with golden yellow (I use Liquitex acrylic as it is translucent)
- add white to snakebite and golden yellow near edge of highlight and wet blend backwards over darker area
- final highlight is golden yellow with white, ratio depending on personal taste.

Brass is a bit darker than gold, with more brown in the shadows and yellower highlights.

Copper can use some reddish orange mixed into the paints above. More red than bronze. Both also have tints of green. Copper and bronze can have tints of green also.

 

[Chrispy]

Vallejo and water. For more info see my article!

 

[Jericho]

I do NMM gold quite simply. Basecoat GW Snakebite Leather, blend up to Bronzed Flesh, and then blend Bronzed Flesh into Bleached Bone. The only time I\'ve really used it was on my Aenur model, and I\'m quite pleased with that little experiment. As you can see from the picture, I haven\'t quite figured out NMM silver yet

In all fairness though, that sword was too awkwardly shaped and angled for the three or four techniques I tried before settling with this one.

 

[avellaird_vex]

How about Copper?

Has anyone tried Non-Metalic Metal Copper?