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So this is a rat pack poison pot thrower. I spent a while doing the nmm part yesterday. When my wife just calmly looked up from her book as I eagerly thrust it in her face for a critique She said, "looks nice."

SO i guess i wanted the opinion of some fellow painters about the shadows on the barrel. If I draw a dark line under the shadows and add another reflection will that actually help? Do I need to define the main shadow along the big barrel more? Does the weathering make sense? What does it all mean?

The first thing I would do is to go for a bit more contrast (so the other parts have some range in their gradients to look like a different material) and to finish the surrounding parts of the miniature using the same light source to define the other parts' lighting. Then add a bit of the surrounding elements' colour to the NMM parts to imply a diffuse reflection of these parts on the NMM part. In isolation NMM tends to look wrong especially if the rest of the miniature is unfinished. Wait for the final moments to draw everything together before you give up on it.