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I collect Iron Warriors and paint them boltgun metal with a wash of agrax earthshade but their not quite dark enough to just paint scratches with my mithril silver. I've tried the mithril silver a thin black outline to give it more contrast but it still doesn't look that good (good enough for me anyway). So can anyone help, specifically with scratches?

Chip a bit off, paint that with tin bitz and highlight with chainmail -> mithril? Maybe?

Chuck a coat of black wash (not too sure with the new GW paint range).

Or maybe do another pass with the agrax.

Thanks I'll give tin bitz a go, and I don't want to wash it again or it wont look right with everything else.

Woodsy444 wrote:
I collect Iron Warriors and paint them boltgun metal with a wash of agrax earthshade but their not quite dark enough to just paint scratches with my mithril silver. I've tried the mithril silver a thin black outline to give it more contrast but it still doesn't look that good (good enough for me anyway). So can anyone help, specifically with scratches?

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com.au/2010/02/painting-dirty-metal.html

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/adding-battle-damage-to-plain-metal.html

I found these articles to be immensely useful.

With a steel-like base, any silver metallic is going to lack sufficient contrast. Tin Bitz makes for a decent rusty-ish metal, when applied thinly over a black-silver base, but it's still going to have a metallic sheen that makes it harder to visually separate than a flat paint (and makes it too shiny for convincing rust). I might suggest using a dark red-brown to hint at rust in the scratches, perhaps with a fine Mithril Silver highlight on the edge. At a scale as small as scratches on a miniature tank, the lack of variation in the rust won't matter and the contrast will be much greater than using another metallic paint, regardless of the color family.

I agree with the dark red-brown idea, the result will be quite rusty. Personally I use a heavy Lavado Sepia wash (Vallejo) and a highlight with Chainmail (GW)

Thanks for the help, I decided to wash them to make them darker then use a light silver to make scratches and whatnot, have a look here if you like,

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/473866.page