Painting Non-Metallic Metal… Part 3
July 6, 2012 by elromanozo
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Well, the part on the sword kind of answered my questions on clearer metal colors. I’ll probably go for a slightly less darker blue for my shade, I think. I’ll take a look at what I have here and try it out on my Vyros miniature that is already basecoated. I might go farther and even try some of the red silk tutorial techniques on his coat (Went for a doubly coloreed coat, with dark green leather underneath and a bright reed as outer color. That is the cloak color I’ll use on all my dawnguard, using black for mage… Read more »
You’re welcome !
You might also want to wait until August, for more tutorials about metallic armor, and white. But with the Infinity William Wallace armor tutorial and this one, you have all the basics covered. Just explore with the colours you want !
BoW Romain
Will BoW be selling those shirts anytime soon?
Nope ! This one’s mine…
Oh, Romain, another question: Do you think mixing NMM techniques and metallic paints on the same miniature can work? (On different parts) Or would it become too strange not having coherent highlighting effects? Was studying my Vyros mini and unfortunately I had basecoated a few spots with metallic colors (Gold mostly). I can cover it up with a new yellow basecoat and work from there, but just wanted to confirm.
Mixing NMM and TMP on different parts of your miniature isn’t usually done for reasons of coherence, as you say… But if you’re good, you can pull it off. What you can do is mix TMP and NMM on the same part : Use the metallic paint as a base, but shade it with non metallic tones just as you would do NMM (same procedure). You can highlight it either with non metallic colours, or with metallic paints with very fine pigments (the ones for airbrushing are perfect, such as the Model Air range from Vallejo). This technique gives excellent… Read more »
Woa, thanks a lot. I think I’ll try it out to be able to work with the current basecoats. Didn’t even know about that kind of mix. Keep the coats thin and work it up, right? I hope I can get good results.
Exactly !
Experiment, it’ll be worth it.