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Maple Ridge

Hi. Can someone kindly recommend which citadel paints to use for painting shields? What is a good metal paint and a good paint for wood?

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My go-to for shields is Mournfang brown from citadel, with Gunmetal from the army painter for the rim/boss. Leadbelcher is citadel's equivalent.
I go over it with a dark-brown wash like agrax earthshade, and will sometimes do a highlight with a brighter silver.

Hope this helps!

 
   
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 Jetmortar wrote:
My go-to for shields is Mournfang brown from citadel, with Gunmetal from the army painter for the rim/boss. Leadbelcher is citadel's equivalent.
I go over it with a dark-brown wash like agrax earthshade, and will sometimes do a highlight with a brighter silver.

Hope this helps!


This is about what I do as well. Sometimes I mix up the brown just to add variety. Might add a little nuln oil to the metal to bring out things like nails/rivets.

   
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I would first have to ask what shields you are painting. Going at a 40k Storm Shield is incredibly different from going at a AoS Skaven shield.

But for the most part, a base metal in whatever tone you're looking for should work the same as for any other metal the model is wearing. And wood is best done with a color close to the type of wood you want covered in a brown wash like Aggrax Earthshade.

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Bergen

Best wood paint I have seen is contrast paint with wood on the name. Works great!

   
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 Niiai wrote:
Best wood paint I have seen is contrast paint with wood on the name. Works great!


Wyldwood; and I concur best paint for wood.
   
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Bergen

Yeah. You can even work in other colours before hand like some green if you want it to look older.

   
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Folkvang

I just use silver for everything and apply washes over it to get whatever tones I want. Personally, I'd use Gw's stormhost silver and then whatever oil paint or enamel or even contrast paint you want to make them whatever color you desire.

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