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HELLO EVERYBODY!
I have acquired my first ever fantacy model, a lizardmen saurus oldblood. I plan on painting the armour silver but am thinking that I should use a different silver to my GK?
any Ideas on how to do detailed silver
DONT BUTTER THE WALRESS!?!

I'm flattered that you would want to paint me in detail on your lizardmen, but it is really not required

I would pick an appropriate shade of silver paint - either very light and reflective, or slightly duller, then give it a light black wash just to add some shade and dimension to it.

Aaaand that is about it as far as painting silver goes. Unless you want to get into non-metalic metals or something like that, which I personally am not a fan of.

I was thinking a rather light/bright shade, as im painting the model a dark blue?
ONT BUTTER THE WALRESS.

If the model itself is going to be blue then I might also mix in a very small amount of blue wash into the black to give the impression the silver is reflecting the skin of the warrior. A lighter silver would contrast well with a darker blue skin.

ok thanks!
im now thinking runethang steel (or iron breaker(little darker)?) washed with a 3 or 4-1 thin mix of imperial primer-gullimen blue?

I would go with a lighter silver as you can always darken it with more wash, or by mixing a little black into the paint (not directly in the pot - use a bit of plastic or gloss ceramic tile or an artists mixing pallete).

In terms of the wash... I don't know what their new paints are like as I don't have any. A blue ink (which I think is what their glaze paints are) would give a nice touch of gloss to the silver, which I think would be good. For the black I would not just use a watered down black paint - I would use an actual black wash. Sometimes a watered down paint looks
OK, but sometimes it can look gritty and splotchy when dry.

I might be tempted to go 2:1 black:blue, with the resulting mix going ~2:1 water:wash, but I would have to experiment to see what looked best.

Imperial primer is a wash

Isn't imperial primer just black paint?

Kind of. It's made to get into crevices, me and my friend thought it was just black and we were surprised, to the point of banging my head on my desk and almost making doc.lictor go off the edge.
I'm just about to start painting actuely

the shrouded lord wrote:Imperial primer is a wash

SilverMK2 wrote:Isn't imperial primer just black paint?

Nope! But it isn't a wash (or as they call them now, a Shade) either. It's a technical paint, an actual black brush-on primer. See for yourself.

You want Nuln Oil and Drakenhof Nightshade for this little project. You try to "wash" with a primer, it'll all end in tears, trust me.


Example of a Shade pot


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the shrouded lord wrote:
Kind of. It's made to get into crevices, me and my friend thought it was just black and we were surprised, to the point of banging my head on my desk and almost making doc.lictor go off the edge.
I'm just about to start painting actuely

Then... I'd say you got a bad pot or GW are outright marketing incorrect products. It's supposed to be a primer.

Hmmm, I swear we washed some gaunts and they looked fine, i was just about to start painting my lizardmanwhen I realised that I don't have dragenhof nightshade so I can't get the skintone right anyway :(

I'm not saying it didn't behave like a wash - I'm just saying that's pretty odd considering what they're marketing it as. However, we won't know if your experience is typical unless we get someone else's opinion in here, as I don't have the paint myself. Good luck anyway! Maybe take the pot in to the store you got it from when you go to some Drakenhof and ask about it?

I paint golds and silvers like normal colours. I use a dark silver, like bolt gun metal, as the base coat, then I shade with black and highlight with a bright silver like Mithril silver. With gold I use black, tin bitz, a darker gold and shining gold.

I don't really like the new GW metallics, they have a strange consistency and don't have a smooth finish. I've recently been using the Army painter ones, they are much more like the old GW metallics, I'm really impressed with them. Then just follow what silver said, jobs a good un!