How do I paint an oily sheen?

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**Malcontent**

I'm painting up some MoT Chaos Warriors, and got inspired by the way oil has a multicolored sheen to it and would like to replicate that on some of their metal parts. Does anyone know how to do this?

**Coolyo294**

Gloss Varnish maybe?

**bok_choy17**

Oil?

**Savis**

Maybe layers of washes over a charcoal grey surface and then gloss varnish to cover. At least that's what I would try.

**Zefig**

Check out this thread for oily necrons like this:

He explains his technique a few posts down, if that's what you're looking for.

**Snarky**

Get some Scorched Brown (or Burnt Umber oil paint is ideal), mix with gloss varnish at a 50% 50% ratio and paint it on.

**Breotan**

Get a black wash and mix it with a tiny amount of boltgun metal. This will give it the greasy/oily look due to the reflective nature of the metallic paint while keeping it black like oil.

**Muggzy**

Might try something like

Iridescent Medium, you can even add different colors to it, for Oil I would mix it with black paint or black ink and it would probably do what you want.

http://www.cheapjoes.com/art-supply/D5116_8037_da-vinci-iridescent-acrylic-medium-oz.asp

**Malcontent**

Zefig wrote:Check out this thread for oily necrons like this:

He explains his technique a few posts down, if that's what you're looking for.

That looks almost exactly like what I want, thank you.

**Zefig**

You're welcome! I've tried using iridescent paints to get the 2-tone paint effect, and it sorta works, but it's not nearly as effective to get that oily look.