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I have bought a miniature and i would like to paint the armor dark/black but i dont know how to best achieve the look i want.

I am considering everything from nmm to true metallics, and I think its better to do it with a metallic "silver" paint and then wash it with layers of brown and black because nnm looks to "clean" imo.
What do you guys think? I am open to any suggestions. (If you have painted something similar and have a photo, it would help me a lot ).

Here's the art of the miniature I have bought with the look i want to achieve

I use a mix of black and grays.

Leave the deepest shadow pure black and the build the layers up by adding grey to the black.

I usually do

Pure black
25/75 grey black
50/50 grey black
Edge highlight grey.

Looks like standard rusty/oily metal to me. The picture is mostly in shadow.

Gunmetal, black wash then brown wash. Highlight raised surfaces with gunmetal. Edges with mix of gunmetal and silver.

If you are looking at NMM then bear in mind that it doesn't necessarily have to be clean. NMM is all about creating a metallic effect using non-metallic paints, and while shiny is the 'default' way of doing it, it's perfectly possible to get some really grimy, worn looks from the effect as well. Just as metal in the real world can vary from shining chrome to rusty, mucky iron, so can attempts to replicate it in miniature form.

For example, this model is painted using NMM, in that there are no metallic paints used, but it's almost the opposite of the standard clean NMM:


The way to achieve this is to use lots of washes and drybrushes to really create the impression of the desired texture (look up some dark/worn/grimy metal in real life to use as a reference), but still think in NMM terms (where is the light coming from, which areas are in shadow, what bits reflect what). NMM is a method, not an end result, so you should be able to get your intended effect using it so long as you follow the theory. Bear in mind that by necessity, that picture you posted will be painted using NMM, so if you really look closely at the colours used there you should get a good starting point to work from.

Hope that helps!

This looks like what you want:

Dark gray will serve you best with plenty of highlights and black washed into the very recesses.

For more than youd like to know probably: