Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I've reciently been painting some reaper dark haven figs to possibly serve in a future DnD campeign, and as such I've bought 4 different fighter figs. I have two more I've painted a long time ago as well. I just finished a fighter standing at attention with his sword down at his side. His armour, which he has alot of, is Chainmail colour from Citadel. His sword is Mitherel siver from Citadel, and the ridges and designs on his armour are gold. The next fig is a fighter attacking, and he also has alot of plate armour, as well as some chainmaille; so my question is, how can I paint the plate with out having to resort to making it Mitriel or chainmail colour? They're rather close, and if I make it chainmail colour for the chainmaille, and mithreil for the plate, I'll have highlighting issues. So what can I do so I don't have sooo much "shiny"?

Few individual options: (black base coat)

1. Start w/ Bolt Gun
or
2. Black wash...watered down Chaos Black
or
3. Chainmail, Valejo Black Glaze, Valejo Smoke recesses

Mithril is too bright to start with...no opacity either. I never really use it unless its fine edges.

Hm...out of bolt gun...it IS primed black, so what would a black wash be for, or are you refering to BGM and a black wash on that? And Valejo black glaze/smock recesses, waht are those?

Brother CPT Ginn has the right idea. As its alos the way I do the metals. Primer the fig in black and start with a thin coat of Boltgun metal. It dosent matter is if covers all the way as you are only using it as a base coat, just as long and its on there.

Next add your chainmail with a little bit of boltgun mixed in it. I use all vellejo colors and this makes it easy to mix the paints. You need to concentrate on the higher spots and anywhere the forst coat is thin. Then ink it down. I use glaze medium (2/1) with black paint. (In case you dont know, glaze medium is a vellejo product that allows you to make your paint transparent and wash them over your colors with out thinning the pigment or breaking down the binders the way water does.) Add water till its thin and wash all your metals make sure its thin you dont want it to look like Black paint this is just a wash. That will deepen you metal and make it very flat. Let it dry well before doing anything else. This is where you could also use the smoke ink he spoke of. Its a brown rust like ink that works well for metal parts. Becarefull with this though as it is pretty potent and needs to be thinned and apply very sparsly. It can over power your color quickly.

Once all is dry you can go over the armor again with chainmail and a tad of bolt gun mostely on the high spots. Build up the high spots to your liking, adding mithiril into your chainmail until you get to pure silver. It sound like alot of work and steps but I assure you you should be able to do all your armor in and hour or two tops on all your 4 or 5 fighters. Hope it helps

CPT Viper's got it...the black wash would be to tone down your chain mail. Go to Brushthralls.com to get a really good read on metals.

Thanks guys I'll pick up some supplies asap and give this a go. Reciently I bought Model Master Acryl thinner, as I had read the "Let it flow" article on Reaper, and found it does wonders, smothing out my strokes so it dosn't look like a kid did it. This has helped my skills improve quite a bit; was't a bad deal for like 10 bucks.