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I feel completely slowed for this but I've had a massive brain fart over what the technical color term is for this. In a few months I'm getting a new car and want to get it painted a specific color. It will be a very dark blue, but with the type of paint job that amplifies the way light lightens the color almost to the point of being a standard blue when hit from the right angle. What I can't remember is the term for this. Can somebody help me out of this derka moment?

Metallic paint?

I'm not entirely sure, but I think it's called prismatic paint. It's a really cool effect, like a beetle's carapace.

Pearl effect?

Thank you. Saying pearl effect triggered my memory. Its pearlescent paint. Woots. Now that I know what to ask for I can find somebody to do it.

Each of the different auto manufacturers have different names for their paint colors, so what you're really asking is two things, it seems.

First, you want a specific blue color, and second, you want to know what the term is for "metallic" or "pearlescent" paint?

Also called "irridescent" paint.

Sounds like magic indigo. Distilled from fairies. Hard to come by.

Iridescent paints change hues (blue to purple) depending on angle seen.

Pearls just always shimmer in the sun.

Chameleon or color-shift change color totally (like red to gold or blue to gold) but are way expensive. They shift more than iridescent paint does.

Most cars these days off the show room are either gloss, metallic or pearl. Chameleon and iridescent are normally custom paint jobs.

Has anyone ever tried highlighting or blending it with acrylics? I've seen it used on swooping hawk wings where it looked cool, but thought it would be a good colour idea for dark eldar when they get released again. I know they sell it in a lot of Japanese hobby stores at least.

Createx makes Iridescent acrylic paints. It could look good if applied right but colors like those have kind of a "formula" for looking their best (generally iridescent colors look best over a metallic base first, generally silver/aluminum) and obviously the larger the area the more light reflecting.

Not saying it can't be done on infantry, as you seemed to have seen it, but things like tanks and titans and superheavies it'd look best on (a revenant or phantom would look great with an iridescent or chameleon paint job (though a urethane chameleon color is around $44 for a 4oz bottle)

I'm not sure how we went from actual cars to models but if they make those kind of paints in acrylic I have some great ideas for painting dark eldar things if they ever get around to updating them.

Createx website (http://www.createxcolors.com) lists every color they make.

Http://www.dickblick.com or http://www.kustomshop.com carries most, if not the entire line, of Createx colors.

Never tried to brush paint an iridescent so not sure how well they work for regular brushing.

You can get acrylic media for mixing irridescent/pearlescent/metallic colours.

http://www.liquitex.com/Products/fluidmediripearltint.cfm

Works fine for normal brushing. You don't get quite the same effect on a small model that you would on a large one, because the ratio of particle size to surface area is different.