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I have a 40k Knight I wish to paint, and I was hoping to make it a very metallic cherry red. Any ideas on what paints and techniques I can use.

If you have an airbrush available, spraying either blood for the blood God or the gemstone red in a light coat over runefang works well.

Gives it a slightly transparent but metallic red.
2 thin coats dull it slightly but remove the transparency.

a lot of people get great results with the Tamiya Clear Red...

technique-wise, you are going to want to paint your steel/silver color, with all the shading and highlighting, all the way up to a nice bright and bold silver, with deep shadows...
after that, finish it off with the Tamiya...

good luck!!!

cheers
jah

I do not have an airbrush can I paint either the gemstone or the Tamiya Clear Red red with a brush to achieve the same effect?

Its not a knight but there are a couple of tutorials for painting metallic red on this you tube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiqHGgzRTE0 You can probably skip the first half of the first video until he starts painting. The second video is applying the tamiya clear red. Not sure if the tamiya would give you a 'cherry red' but at least you get an idea of the technique.

K19 wrote:
I do not have an airbrush can I paint either the gemstone or the Tamiya Clear Red red with a brush to achieve the same effect?

You would have better luck hand brushing the gemstone paint from GW.

The Tamiya paints are notoriously bad to paint using a brush; they are super thin and take forever to build colour.

well gents thank you all for your advice, I broke down and bought an airbrush. Im looking forward to trying it out. Another question if anyone knows where I can pick up small chains I could drape on my Imperial knight, I tried looking for some in bits but to no avail.

For the metallic red I would have recommended just buying a metallic red and a metallic blue, mix a touch of the blue in to the red and you get a deeper red (too much and it turns purple, so just a little bit of blue).

I used Gunze metallics by hairy brush and it worked fine.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
For the metallic red I would have recommended just buying a metallic red and a metallic blue, mix a touch of the blue in to the red and you get a deeper red (too much and it turns purple, so just a little bit of blue).

I used Gunze metallics by hairy brush and it worked fine.

The old GW 'How To Paint Citadel Miniatures' book suggested that to make a deeper red that you should mix in a small amount of dark green.

 Ghaz wrote:

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
For the metallic red I would have recommended just buying a metallic red and a metallic blue, mix a touch of the blue in to the red and you get a deeper red (too much and it turns purple, so just a little bit of blue).

I used Gunze metallics by hairy brush and it worked fine.

The old GW 'How To Paint Citadel Miniatures' book suggested that to make a deeper red that you should mix in a small amount of dark green.

Depends what effect you're going for, the OP said "cherry red" which I associate with a more purplish hue of red.

Is the sort of color I'd like http://cpcardetailing.com/wp-content/flagallery/content-test-gallery/thumbs/thumbs_saleen-s7-detailed-by-cp-car-detailing-1.gif