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I have been slowly working my way back through all of my CSM to improve my painting techniques and give them a nice update towards my original (re-)vision of all of the Traitoris Extremis Chapters. The Word Bearers in particular are my pride and joy, but in order to truly do them justice, I don't want to half-ass anything. While they won't be ready to be re-painted for quite some time (extensive sculpting and modeling needs to be done to every single model in the army before I reach that point, and I could probably use some advice on that as well, but we'll save that for another thread), I am still struggling to create a believable effect for non-metallic metal, no matter how many times I practice using my own concepts and techniques.

I am not a beginning painter by any stretch, and have been painting regularly for years now. I will easily spend at least eight hours painting any model in my army, no matter how small or insignificant. I stay as far away from shortcuts as I possibly can (Inks, drybrushing, etc.), unless they are absolutely required to pull off a desired effect. I have a fairly good understanding of glazing and paint-to-water/paint-to-paint ratios. That is why this is extremely frustrating to me.

Is there anyone at all who could perhaps point me in the right direction, or offer me some advice on the art of painting NMM? It would be greatly appreciated.

The best advice I can offer you is to splash out on these dvds: http://www.hot-lead.org/dvd/index.html.

There is a very comprehensive discussion of NMM on these as well as a few other tutorials. One of the most useful things is the descriptions of light acts on objects and how using that knowledge allows you to fool the eye with a paint job. I'm not sure describing it here would be anywhere near as good as seeing it done.

General, assuming you know the theory, practical advice:
1) Use a wet palette.
2) Use glaze medium - it really helps.

For tips on the theory, try this month's white dwarf. It mostly gold, but the techniques are fairly similar.

there was a tuturial in a recent white dwarf.
also see hot lead - http://hot-lead.org/
you can see extracts from his videos



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& here's a great list of how to do just about anything!
http://www.40konline.com/community/index.php?topic=79336.0


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also - http://www.blackmoor.ca/articlesnmm.htm