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Hey all.

So I've been following Shadowspearer religiously (heretically) and been excited for my first descent into Chaos and painting some Alpha Legion.

My original plan was to follow Duncan's advice on using Konrad Curze Artificer tint with Iron Breaker (https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer/comments/9ln7mi/alpha_legion_tartaros_terminator_squad_done/)

The issue is I neither want/can afford the entire artificer set. Can anyone recommend a good replacement, I'm happy to use non GW paints.

Thank you for any response.

There are loads of ways of doing blue metallic. The way he's done it seems quite contrived really. The simplest is to glaze blue over a metallic base. Alternatively you can buy metallic blues or colour shift blue greens from places like greenstuff world.

Ooo solid advice.

I'll have a look around for metalic colours. If I can get one premixed without painting on top, it would be nicer.

Thank you.

Chdck out greenstuff world, or ak interactive. They make true metal paints which are like a wax that you buff once dry to shine up. They require a bit more prep, thinners and such but give a nice result. I think they make a blue.

You could also try Badger's Metalsmith paints. Really all you need is the Ore colors, which they do have a blue one. From what Vince Venturella was showing on his channel, the Ore colors are just high gloss inks that can either be mixed in to whatever metallic paint you want, or glazed over.

I think this is likely better than just using "standard" inks, because it will not dull down the metallic sheen. I'd personally also skip GW's metallics and just get the shade of Vallejo Metal Color that I'd prefer, then mix either the Badger blue Ore, or some other (hopefully) somewhat glossy ink.

Thanks all. I'll start the hunt tomorrow.

One way to do Alpha legion that I found works really nice is using 2-3 coats of guilliman blue glaze over basically any silver color, then a wash of Biel-Tan green finished with a last layer of the blue glaze. Takes a while due to each layer needing to dry before moving on but other than that is fairly simple. Silver edge highlights might make this look even better.

Result looks like this:

If you are looking for metallic blues you could try turbo dork stuff