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I would like someone to explain to me how to achieve the technique on the Imperial fists sword. I do not know what the technique is called, I have looked under NMM articles with no luck. Someone help!
Here is the article with pic. Thanks in advance.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/352588.page

I can't access most of the sites at work, however, a quick google search should provide you with plenty of tutorials on how to paint non-metallic metals.

The youtube links may well be most helpful to you if you have not done much painting as they will physically show you how to do things.

Edit: And just for your information, this thread is not for asking questions, it is for positing tutorials. If you want help, please post in the Painting and Modeling forum. A more helpful title may also get more people in to help you. Something such as "Help with NNM" for example.

Moving to a more appropriate space

It apprears to be wet blending. Very, Very good wet blending. Trying to achieve that with acylics will make your brain fall out of your nose.

If you want to try it, you will need drying retardant, as the effect is achieved by moving the paint around on the surface, much like you'd mix colours on a palette.

Do some research on wet blending - it is in essence following the same principle skillset used for Non-Metallic-Metals, but the theory differs - there's no horzion sky earth principle. It's more about getting a smooth transition along a gradient.

Helpful hint - Oil paints tend to be easier to wet blend with, especially paler shades. Light coloured acrylics can easily get wiped out during wet blending, so you're also going to have less of a headache painting darker gradients.

First stop - go to CMON and read a few wet blending articles. Next, hop on a few watercolour sites and check out thier tips on brush control for superthinned paint. Also look at oil painting forums and see how thier technique for wet blending differs from acrylics.

Next - decide on your medium. I recomend getting a set of oil paints to practise with before even going near a mini - oil is a lot easier to learn with.

Then: Research, practice, research some more based on your results.

Lastly - persevere. It's a very difficult skill to learn. There isn't a lot of call for it in many colour schemes, but when employed properly it looks the shiznit.

Picture is quite small - can be either airbrush or wetblend or feathering. But from the look of it this's done by hand.

The way I do it is by using
Airbrush with and a piece of cardboard masking the opposite side of the blade.

You can either start from light to dark color or from black to light, but starting with white is easier.
In this case, use white prime, then go thinned down red,
then add white highlight and spray red+black for shading and finish with black.

I've got a few minis painted with this technique and the outcome is fundamentally the same - shiny/NMM looking sword.

I've never done it using wet blending because I use airbrush to paint. I would use feathering technique though, if I had to do it by hand.
With feathering, you thin your paint down and paint thin layers laying down the color from dark to light. Then glaze with the base color (in this case, red) to reduce contrast.
Repeat until it's smooth.

As Phayse said - try doing some research around the net.
Keywords:
-Non metallic metal
-Wet blending
-Feathering
-Successive glaze (credit to the Guild of Harmony)

Good luck

Not sure if it is this technique, but I figure I'll post this anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AImKoB10ans

lionfire wrote:Not sure if it is this technique, but I figure I'll post this anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AImKoB10ans

I'd reecommend watching his wetblend tutorial also.

lionfire wrote:Not sure if it is this technique, but I figure I'll post this anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AImKoB10ans

That's how I do it, except with a piece of cardboard instead of masking tape -

recommended!

Man thanks all and LES is the man.