Vallejo's Metal Medium

[supervike]

What's it do?

Do you use it?

Can you show examples?

Cheers!

 

[Ritual]

It is basically a white metallic "paint". I assume its main purpose is to create coloured metallic paints by mixing with a regular paint of some colour. I use it, but I use it mainly as an equivalent of how pure white is used when painting NMM - the final highlights.

Here's a good example, where I've used this method. All the sharp and really bright reflections are the metallic medium painted on on its own.

 

[Crayfish]

Yeah, its a really great paint IMO, i use it just like Ritual does. And it works really well, gives a kinda polished look once applied.

 

[Trevor]

This guy was painted many moons ago using the metallic medium mixed with red or blue paint. It worked well with the blue, not so much with the red...

I think its probably better the way ritual uses it, but it can be mixes well with some inks if you want a different metallic colour than the usual.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/pics/pics6/img40416589d1f6f.jpg

 

[supervike]

thanks peeps!