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Hi guys, im relatively new to painting minatures and am struggling with painting metalics (more so on guns than swords) does anyone have any tips or advice for painting metalics

What are you in particular struggling with? For guns I use a dark metallic silver, then brush a heavy black wash over it. That's probably enough depending on what you are looking for, but you could then go back and highlight with the same dark metallic silver, and then a further highlight with a brighter metallic.

Some people don't thin their metallic paints, but it depends on the brand of paints. I thin mine, and paint them in 2 or 3 coats depending on my basecoat. Over black 2 coats is usually enough, over grey/white it's usually 3.

What part of metallics do you struggle with? Is it too thick or do you not like the colour or what?

Paint the surface with the closest non-metallic colour to what you want.
Then the metallic.
They are a bit transparent so you either add lots of layers or the trick above.

I usually end up putting metalics on too thick because they dont cover very well but ill try and put a thin coat of a very similar color on first then a couple of thined down layers of the metal next time and see how it goes

Black before silver, brown before gold. Good paints, thin coats.

When I first started painting, it was Black legion (Black and silver) and the edges looked like garbage, could not figure it out for a while.
Undercoated in grey and it made a sharper edge.

Make sure you try to use separate water and brushes for metallic vs normal paints: your model will have odd flecks of glitter and look like it is going to the disco otherwise.

Guns are really easy. Paint them leadbelcher, apply nuhln oil, and call it a day

If your are adventurous, quickly drybrush with necron compound, and it will look great.

a quick and easy technique for firearms is a black coat, then a light drybrush of a dark grey metallic. if you look as most military firearms, they arent actually metallic, theyre black, with metal sometimes showing through with wear, so this is also pretty realistic.