Painting Metalics

[Usideann]

Ok I have heard there is a tequnique for painting metalics without actualling useing my mythral silver... can someone spill the beans, since nobody at my hobby shop is about to win a golden deamon... ( i think my minis look like s**t and I am one of the best at my location...) or has a clue about the painting aspect... they area a three colors, white glue and dip in GW flocking and you are done crowd...

I mean I have asperations... I want to be able to go to a games day and not be embarassed...

I want to be able to say \"yeah the Guys (and gals) at CMON set me strait and told me how to do things correctly\" and that is why I have this \'thanks for participating\' peice of paper... (assuming they glanced at my mini for at least the 3 seconds it takes to chuckle to themselves)

So really if there is any way for some of you masters, that can tell me or dirrect me to somplace that can instruct me on how to make metalics without metalics I will remember you personally in my asceptance speech (which will be right outside the men\'s bathroom to the left)

Thanks
Usideann

 

[Wolf Fang]

if its a metal mini you can simply polish the metal where you want the metalic then throw a black wash over top.. plastic... NMM with a metalic wash to make it shine... this i dunno how to acheive tho and want to know myselfe (firstly if its even posible) as i want to try that on my predator...

 

[DrEvilmonki]

This isn\'t metallics as such; but this is the article which really got me started on improving a lot. This is because he goes step by step the whole way. Read this.

Then on

metallics

Or for

Non Metallic Metal

But I warn you that is a pretty advanced article.

 

[Kendaric]

An excellent article on how to paint metallics is over here:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/246
On page 2. If you don\'t want rust use black instead of all the browns, you have to shade your metallics. If you want something else than steel, iit\'s the same method, just change the shading colors (Brown for gold, blue+black+brown for brass for example).

 

[freakinacage]

the theres have said all that needs to be said i feel. basically what you are looking for is non metallic metals (nmm) using different shades of grey (for silver/steel) or browns (for gold) you can build up the highlights to look like reflective metal

 

[Sanitarium]

A simple way to make metallic colours look good is to paint with a darker tone of metal (let\'s start with boltgun metal), wash it with some diluited black ink (brown for golds), then drybrush it again with the same metallic tone, leaving some of the inked area visible (basically as you would do to paint the a face or robe-you live some of the previous layer of colour where shadows are supposed to be). Then just go on highliting as per normal colours (so you could use a layer of boltgun metal-chainmail, chainmail, chainmail-mithril silver, mithril silver), painting always on a smaller area, to leave some of the previous tone visible and make a good gradient/shading