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Shortly going to start painting up my thousand sons.

I am going with blue and bronze as I think it looks good and I am not a fan of the gold look.

Now I can paint the blue on there just fine.

Its useing the metal colors I have an issue with. It seems like just taking the paint right out of the well(slightly thinned of course) and putting it on there doesnt look as good as some of the other things I have seen. It looks good but I think it could look better and I have seen better as well.

Is there some sort of trick to it? Do you mix with it another color or dry brush something over it? Normally I just dry brush metal colors were I am going to have them like trim and guns over them and that effect looks fine and I really like and I may end up just doing that anyways.

But so yes any tips or tricks to painting with metal colors?

For some sisters of battle I have, I painted very watery burnt umber (think actual acryllic paint store paint, not citadel/premixed) over the unpainted pewter, and it gave it sort of a tarnished bronze look. I don't know if thats what you're looking for or if its more of a brighter bronze, but it's a thought. I wish I had some pictures of them to share. If they're already primed, you could probably do chainmail followed by the burnt umber.

Hmm ill have to keep this in mind.

I am not really shooting for a bright bronze look. More of darker tarnished feel.

Base coat it in burnt cienna (gw brown) and do 50/50 drybrush bronze/tin bitz(which is actually bronze). Then do full bronze highlight followed up by a gold highlight. Layering paint on metals is a great way to learn and is very easy.

i've gotten a good aged bronze look by mixing some mythril silver with a bit of brown ink

1. Basecoat Tin Bitz.
2. Heavy drybrush of Dwarf Bronze. Alternatively, if there's no room to drybrush, simply use a couple thin layers of Dwarf Bronze, leaving the Tin Bitz in the recesses.
3. 50/50 wash of Thraka Green and Gryphonne Sepia with just a dot of Hawk Turquoise. This will be your patina.
4. Light drybrush of Dwarf Bronze.
5. Light drybrush of Shining Gold.

Try it out.