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Hi All

I found this miniture a while ago and really like the body plate and colours associated with it. I was wondering the best way to achieve the same burnished look though. Can anyone help?


I was thinking - base coat of bolt gun metal then layering with chainmail and final layering with mithril silver. Staining wash of Gryphonne Sepia with a darker badab black/devlan mud recess wash. Final thing to highlight edge simply chainmail or silver.

Does this seem ok?

Cheers
Andy

That is a very well painted model and the skill plays as big a part as the color choices in how good it looks. It might even be nmm and the fact I can't tell just shows how well it's painted. All anyone other than the original artist can really do is tell you how they would paint something similar. It seems to be characterized by stark differences between hilights and shades as well as a subtle brown tint.
If I wanted to paint something similar in metallic paints I would probably base in tin bitz to help keep that mild brown tone to the metal. You could then use normal boltgun as that cooler shade or add just the tiniest bit of dark blue to get the contrasting cooler shade and hilight as you said with a little chainmail and mithril silver. I might add the tiniest amount of tin bitz to the highest hilight to keep the tone warm, but you can probably do this later with washes.
That particular metal is shaded very starkly as well so a 1/1 chaos black/scorched brown mix might serve as a good shading color, but you might want to go with more black to brown if that doesn't appear dark enough. You will have to carefully apply this shade though.
The brown tarnish really looks like a glaze of some orangey medium brown. ...maybe vermin brown? The application of that glaze would be very delicate since you wouldn't want to mess with the cool/neutral of the boltgun shade.

Dais wrote:That is a very well painted model and the skill plays as big a part as the color choices in how good it looks. It might even be nmm and the fact I can't tell just shows how well it's painted. All anyone other than the original artist can really do is tell you how they would paint something similar. It seems to be characterized by stark differences between hilights and shades as well as a subtle brown tint.
If I wanted to paint something similar in metallic paints I would probably base in tin bitz to help keep that mild brown tone to the metal. You could then use normal boltgun as that cooler shade or add just the tiniest bit of dark blue to get the contrasting cooler shade and hilight as you said with a little chainmail and mithril silver. I might add the tiniest amount of tin bitz to the highest hilight to keep the tone warm, but you can probably do this later with washes.
That particular metal is shaded very starkly as well so a 1/1 chaos black/scorched brown mix might serve as a good shading color, but you might want to go with more black to brown if that doesn't appear dark enough. You will have to carefully apply this shade though.
The brown tarnish really looks like a glaze of some orangey medium brown. ...maybe vermin brown? The application of that glaze would be very delicate since you wouldn't want to mess with the cool/neutral of the boltgun shade.

Thanks a lot with you assessment! I forgot about tin bits! I will try that one! You I definitely agree that it is painted very well - the effect is great hence the reason for copying it!
Thanks once again
Cheers
Andy