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hey does anyone have tips/advice/link to an article on how make colored metals look nice?

for example: Blue metal for tzeentch or green/red metal.

any advice on coming up with this type of metal?

to be honest most of the best painters do not use metalic paint, that being said there are some ways to make metalic paint colored, the most common way is to just mix a little color into the metalic paint, although some people use a ink or light wash over the base metal.

heres a link:

http://www.chestofcolors.com/cofc-postnuke/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=5&page=1

nice! thanks this will do just the thing. :]

Clthomps wrote:to be honest most of the best painters do not use metalic paint

This is much too simplistic, really. NMM is not automatically better than metallics, nor do "most" of the high-end painters use it. It's just a technique among many others.

I personally dont like the look of NMM. It looks very cartoony and almost anime like in most cases even when really well done. Give me some good ole boltgun metal and Ill be happy. With proper thinning and highlighting of high pigment count metalics I personaly think you get a much better result than using the NMM technique.
Just my opinion though

Canaan wrote:I personally dont like the look of NMM. It looks very cartoony and almost anime like in most cases even when really well done. Give me some good ole boltgun metal and Ill be happy. With proper thinning and highlighting of high pigment count metalics I personaly think you get a much better result than using the NMM technique.
Just my opinion though

Ditto. I really admire people who can pull off a NMM, but even the best look too cartoony.

enmitee,

Reaper has produced a great variety of tinted metallics in the new Reaper Pro Paints series. These can be mixed with other colors to produce highlights and shadows.

The Reaper Master Series also has a fairly wide range of metallic paints, considerably wider than Citadel's, and also has some "gemtone" shades with metallic flake in them. I use the Emerald Green for some of my Eldar models as it has a great green-to-gold interference that's a nice representation of chameleoline.

Personally, I find an effective and simple way is to just use the new Citadel inks, slightly thinned, and painted directly over Mithril Silver.

Gavin Thorne wrote:enmitee,

Reaper has produced a great variety of tinted metallics in the new Reaper Pro Paints series. These can be mixed with other colors to produce highlights and shadows.

The Reaper Master Series also has a fairly wide range of metallic paints, considerably wider than Citadel's, and also has some "gemtone" shades with metallic flake in them. I use the Emerald Green for some of my Eldar models as it has a great green-to-gold interference that's a nice representation of chameleoline.

The coat d'arms paint range also has a decent range of tinted metallics including blue, green, etc. They are the same as the old GW metallic range from the early 90s so are a similar consistency to standard GW metallics.