<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "how to paint silver"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/8.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net how to paint silver I have acquired my first ever fantacy model, a lizardmen saurus oldblood. I plan on painting the armour silver but am thinking that I should use a different silver to my GK?
any Ideas on how to do detailed silver
DONT BUTTER THE WALRESS!?!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933087.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933087.page GMT how to paint silver

I would pick an appropriate shade of silver paint - either very light and reflective, or slightly duller, then give it a light black wash just to add some shade and dimension to it.

Aaaand that is about it as far as painting silver goes. Unless you want to get into non-metalic metals or something like that, which I personally am not a fan of.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933102.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933102.page GMT Re:how to paint silver ONT BUTTER THE WALRESS.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933104.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933104.page GMT how to paint silver http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933111.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933111.page GMT Re:how to paint silver im now thinking runethang steel (or iron breaker(little darker)?) washed with a 3 or 4-1 thin mix of imperial primer-gullimen blue?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933121.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933121.page GMT how to paint silver
In terms of the wash... I don't know what their new paints are like as I don't have any. A blue ink (which I think is what their glaze paints are) would give a nice touch of gloss to the silver, which I think would be good. For the black I would not just use a watered down black paint - I would use an actual black wash. Sometimes a watered down paint looks
OK, but sometimes it can look gritty and splotchy when dry.

I might be tempted to go 2:1 black:blue, with the resulting mix going ~2:1 water:wash, but I would have to experiment to see what looked best.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933153.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933153.page GMT Re:how to paint silver ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933251.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933251.page GMT how to paint silver http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933282.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933282.page GMT Re:how to paint silver I'm just about to start painting actuely]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933308.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933308.page GMT Re:how to paint silver
the shrouded lord wrote:Imperial primer is a wash

SilverMK2 wrote:Isn't imperial primer just black paint?

Nope! But it isn't a wash (or as they call them now, a Shade) either. It's a technical paint, an actual black brush-on primer. See for yourself.

You want Nuln Oil and Drakenhof Nightshade for this little project. You try to "wash" with a primer, it'll all end in tears, trust me.


Example of a Shade pot


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the shrouded lord wrote:
Kind of. It's made to get into crevices, me and my friend thought it was just black and we were surprised, to the point of banging my head on my desk and almost making doc.lictor go off the edge.
I'm just about to start painting actuely

Then... I'd say you got a bad pot or GW are outright marketing incorrect products. It's supposed to be a primer.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933669.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5933669.page GMT Re:how to paint silver http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5935109.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5935109.page GMT how to paint silver http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5936041.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5936041.page GMT how to paint silver http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5936060.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5936060.page GMT Re:how to paint silver GW metallics, they have a strange consistency and don't have a smooth finish. I've recently been using the Army painter ones, they are much more like the old GW metallics, I'm really impressed with them. Then just follow what silver said, jobs a good un!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5936133.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/545284/5936133.page GMT