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I know that red isn't a metallic colour, but I've seen painters who show the armour to be almost metallic, with certain areas in the light and some not, I have a picture, this one is blue but I want to try and achieve the effect with red, it should be attached hot I'm still completely bad with this websites posti stuff. Does anyone know how I could achieve that with red? And would battle damage work with that or would they be too much in contrast of each other? Credit to scotgeeson on Instagram for the armour and buy painted for the battle damage. That's the damage I like doing/want to try, would it contrast too much? And then any help with the red would be appreciated. Thanks people

Check out Painting Buddha's latest Age of Sigmar video where they do the red armour from the Chaos Lord. Might be of use:






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Yeah, the principle certainly works. NMM is a technique/method of painting as much as it is an 'effect', so the colours you pick don't really matter. Gold is in essence brown/yellow NMM, silver is grey/blue NMM, so the method carries over to any colour you'd care to use. The principles are the same, going from dark to light, peaking at the most reflective points, it all applies. The learning curve is knowing what colours/mixes to use (took me a while to figure out the best light grey for silver, in the end I found one with a blue tint worked best), so experiment on sprues/spares before the mini itself.

Personally, I'd avoid battle damage. NMM is at its best in smooth, uninterrupted transitions from dark to light to dark, and I think any kind of chipping/scuffing will break that, ruining the effect.

Choose one or the other. If metal is damaged it wont still be shiny usually.

If you're trying to make it look like red metal (as in, some weird metal that is red, not just metallic red paint like you might find on a car) then scratches will tend to look brighter than the bulk material, not dark chips like in your example there. You can definitely paint battle worn NMM though. Remember, NMM is basically just inventing your own shininess rather than relying on metallic paint to create natural shininess... so you can look to 2D artists for inspiration.

Here's a stylistic way to paint dirty metal armour, not sure how it'd turn out when trying to paint red though....