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I paint gold in Nmm colors but never silver

I understand that greys are used but which ones and in what constancy (water added or mix)

I need a formula for this if anybody knows please post

Thx

For my NMM metal I always did black, then codex grey+black with more and more grey until it was pure codex grey. Then codex grey with fortress grey, adding more fortress grey until it was pure fortress grey. Then white+fortress grey, adding more white until it was pure white.

NMM silver is interesting because you can't just start from black and work up to white, because it ends up looking odd.

What you need to do, is work from a Mid-tone Grey (if you work from black it looks odd, as silver is a "grey" colour not black), up to white, and then ONLY in the deepest areas shade down to black, purely to provide the contrast.

If you have the White Dwarf that has the tutorial for the NMM gold that was done on the Sanguinor. A similar method to would be the way to go, obviously replacing the colours.

You will probably need to use some other colours to get a good effect, particularly blue and purple.

The best way I can describe it is this... All surfaces are reflective. What distinguishes them (prominently) is the colours that they reflect and the amount to which reflections get blurred by surface roughness.

- Chrome for example is like a mirror, it will reflect all colours with zero blur.

- Gold reflects mainly yellows and browns, with a little bit of blur.

- Green Paper reflects greens, with maximum blur. It might be tempting to think of paper as non-reflective, but obviously this is false. If paper wasn't reflective then you wouldn't be able to see it at all. Green paper by definition reflects green.

For the chrome the best way to interpret the reflections would likely be as Sky Earth NMM, this is kind of obvious.

What maybe isn't obvious is that Sky Earth NMM is probably also the most accurate way to understand and interpret the reflections for gold and paper too. Only you will want to limit the colours and make the reflection more blurry to achieve the desired effect.

For gold this will mean tinting your Sky and Earth yellow, and blurring it into more of a gradient. For paper you will want to limit the colour to something quite specific and blur it so much that it is uniform.

If you want to paint Silver than you are going to want a surface that reflects all colours, with some blurriness (like gold). If you take this back to the Sky Earth Nmm blurred, you will see that the colours are primarily Blue and a ground colour Brown/black/grey.

I would use purple into grey here as the ground colour because I think that has a more metallic look, and emphasizes the idea of blue and brown being blurred together a bit. Might also be a good idea to look at some suites of armour and silver objects as a reference.

Start with this one

This has been eye opening

I planned on paintinthe silver parts of ba Nmm but now it makes me want to start gk in Nmm

Thanks for the input