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So far most the metallic colors I've used I've been applying via dry brushing. I'm about to start my deathwing terminators this weekend and I'm planning on using a bit more metallic on them....golds mostly. Now what I've found so far is that if I don't thin them, they are pretty thick. I have some GW some army painter and some vallejo...probably sticking to the vallejo silver and gold for these fellows. However, when I try to thin them a bit, even a 4:1 with more paint makes the coverage very bad. Can anyone give me a bit better tactic when it comes to applying these paints?

Mix the Gold of your choice with a brown that you want the over all gold tone to be... ie warmer or colder....use that as your base. Thinned down of course. Youll get a better coverage and stronger hue.

Have fun

Put a brown or dark yellow base first before you apply the gold. The optimal basecoat will depend on the shade of gold you want: darker browns will make your gold look darker while more yellows would make it lighter. For other metallics, use black as a basecoat.

I ask what you are using to thin your paints.

 sing your life wrote:
I ask what you are using to thin your paints.

Distilled water sir.

Use the thin paint with rubbish coverage.

Apply in thin layers, let dry each layer itle cover after a few. This is how most painting ought to be done.

Just be sure to remove excess paint from the brush onto paper towel, to avoid pooling paint in the recesses.

 wikkedj wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
I ask what you are using to thin your paints.

Distilled water sir.

I find that water dosen't really work for thinning metallic.

I use VMC thinner for my metallics and it really helps them.