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Hi, basically, I wanted to make a power sword that's like a normal metal sword but just the edges are blue, would it be possible to paint over the metal paint without it looking weird? Thanks for any advice/tips.

Yeah it's very common to do that. Just remember the new color will look very matte next to your metallic so the effect is most often used for shades and undertones.

You could also use washes to give your metallic a colored tint.

I would advise a wash. It might be easier to wash the whole sword, then simply paint the original metallic color up the middle. Please post a pic, I'm interested to see how it turns out!

Thanks for the tips guys.

aclive wrote:
I would advise a wash. It might be easier to wash the whole sword, then simply paint the original metallic color up the middle. Please post a pic, I'm interested to see how it turns out!

So I would just prime, wash with blue then paint the metallic over it? Do I need to do a base-coat of blue before the wash?

This is the best picture I could take with my gakky phone, sorry for the quality. I just wanted the bottom running edge to be blue like an energy weapon kind of thing. Ill pick up some blue over the weekend and update you guys

I did a similar thing on my powersword, I painted leadbelcher first, then a wash of purple ink, then the ark purple where I want the lightning sparks, gradually lighten up, and a few specks of white where the lightning sparks are from, then mithril silver over the sword edges.

aclive wrote:
I would advise a wash. It might be easier to wash the whole sword, then simply paint the original metallic color up the middle. Please post a pic, I'm interested to see how it turns out!

You may want to try a glaze - they work better for tinting.

I would prime, paint the sword metallic, then wash it (or use the glaze--good idea!), then go back and paint the metallic on the parts you want to look like regular metal.

In my opinion, color edge on metallic weapon isn't optimal because generally, the highlight will look duller than the metallic (because of the mica). This is why generally you highlight a silver with a brighter silver, rather than with a bright grey or white.

If you're looking for a quick out (rather than NMM, for instance), may I suggest trying to mix a bright blue (like one of the two blue Edge paints, or Temple Guard Blue) with the Vallejo Metallic Medium, or similar product from a fine arts store. This would give you a blue-tinted metallic paint, which you can apply to just the edges.

The advantage of this over using a glaze is that glazing a metallic will dull the metallic -- which isn't a bad thing, if that's what you're looking for, of course. If you want to keep the metallics bright and shiny though, this is one way to deal with it.