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I have an idea on how I would go about it but I don't wana do my normal method of buying a second model to test....
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Daemon-Prince-2016

the plates on the legs as well as the arm plates. The bands on the arms are not a problem and the arm plate could simply have a straight highlight but the leg plates are what confuse me a bit. would i paint a straight line through the plate somewhere or a line in between each of the chaos symbols arrows? i can't imagine light would work that way but thats kinda how you paint other colors

Ummm, I guess it depends where you're going to place your light source and observer location and if you want to have a visible horizon. Each convex and concave surface is capable of reflecting the light source and the horizon, but the intensity is going to depend on orientation to the light source.

I guess I'd tackle it by figuring out the reflection on the overall panel, then the reflection off each edge and crevice, then blend them together with curving lines.

Or I'd just spray it with Alclad and see where the light falls naturally, take a photo and try and replicate it

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Ummm, I guess it depends where you're going to place your light source and observer location and if you want to have a visible horizon. Each convex and concave surface is capable of reflecting the light source and the horizon, but the intensity is going to depend on orientation to the light source.

I guess I'd tackle it by figuring out the reflection on the overall panel, then the reflection off each edge and crevice, then blend them together with curving lines.

Or I'd just spray it with Alclad and see where the light falls naturally, take a photo and try and replicate it

whats this alclad? i'm too much of a learn while doing kinda person. maybe i can find the bits on ebay and test a bit

I was mostly just joking. Alclad is a paint that gives a natural metal finish (NMF), you can emulate an almost mirror-like polished metal finish. So theoretically you could paint the object in alclad, take it outside at sunset or sunrise and take a photo (assuming want the "horizon" look to your NMM, if you want a more "point source" look then you could use a spotlight/torch/flashlight or something).

For example, if you wanted to paint a NMM Saurus, you could use the images below as a guide as it's painted with a highly reflective metallic (though my "horizon" is somewhat corrupted by gumtrees ).

But I think people usually want "artistic" when they do NMM rather than "realistic", so it's probably not that useful.

right. im struggling with the artistic application of light. its whatever i can just not use the plates. the other parts are easy to figure out