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Does anyone know of a spray that (from actual experience not from guessing or what it says on the label) that matches boltgun metal? I ask cuz I'm eating through pots of it pretty quick building my Iron Warriors & correspending Iron Legion traitor guard armies.

Chain mail by The Army Painter looks really similar to bolt gun after a wash with badab black.

Surfboard66 wrote:Chain mail by The Army Painter looks really similar to bolt gun after a wash with badab black.

Can't argue with that.

at one point i had an actual spray can of boltgun from gw, though i've no idea if they still make it- i didn't entirely like the finish it had though when it came to painting on top of it.

They stopped making the GW one years ago, I miss mine.... The Army Painter one with wash is the best solution, tiny bit more effort but better than regular paint.

Try an airbrush,

doktor_g wrote:Try an airbrush,

Well since my airbrush uses propellant, the weather hasn't been very conducive to such. Plus, it still eats up the pricey little pots of boltgun metal.

I might suggest a can of Krylon Chrome Spray paint. It doesn't go all nice and chromey, rather it looks like silver metal flake paint.

Try that out, followed by a wash of Badab Black should, in my head anyway, work out pretty well.

I'll try it out tomorrow myself after I get out of work if you'd like, I've already got the can of Krylon sitting at my station.

Lemme know how it works, I think I've got a can stuffed somewhere in my workshop so if it turns out well I may have to dig it out.

Alright, experiment has been conducted, and here are my findings:

The materials used:
Krylon Black primer (for both contestants)
Boltgun Metal
Badab Black
Krylon Brilliant Silver Spray


1 bit was primed with Krylon black, and was coated in a quick, no attention to detail, spattering of Boltgun Metal (left). The other bit was also primed with Krylon black, but was then coated with Krylon Silver Spray, followed by a quick, no attention to detail, spattering of Badab Black (right):


Findings:
Can Boltgun Metal be reproduced? Possibly with more coatings of Badab Black, but Brilliant Silver by Krylon is too bright. Maybe, rather than Krylon Brilliant Silver Spray, 1 of the following would be a better contestant:
Krylon Brushed metal
Krylon Premium Metallic "Silver Foil"
Rustoleum Metallic Spray "Satin Nickel"

I wonder why GW stopped the coloured sprays, cant see how they can be a bad thing really.

Skippy wrote:I wonder why GW stopped the coloured sprays, cant see how they can be a bad thing really.

Well, IIRC they were horribly priced & all but black & white were in small cans for said horrible prices. Even now the black & white are horribly priced honestly.