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Post subject: metallic look  Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 3:57 am |
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Well met brothers,
I was wondering how one simulates a metallic look w/o using any metallic paint. I believe they refer to this method as NMM.
What colors would you use to simulate gold?
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Warmaster Nice
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Post subject: metallic look Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:53 am |
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Warm brown. Possibly snakebite leather with highlights of pure white. I haven't tried it out myself but I think there was an article in WD a long time ago where they used the technique to paint Lord Dante of the Blood Angels.
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Post subject: metallic look Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 10:40 am |
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Look up the WD where the Necrons are released too. They use the technique for painting the two C'tan. It goes into a lot of detail on how to do it. One is gold, the other silver.
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Post subject: metallic look Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 8:24 pm |
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| Quote (Shadow Hunter @ 27 2003 Oct.,09:40) | | Look up the WD where the Necrons are released too. ?They use the technique for painting the two C'tan. ?It goes into a lot of detail on how to do it. ?One is gold, the other silver. |
There are two varieties of NMM. On is straight NMM, and they other is "Sky-Earth Non-metalic Metal" (SENMM). Both are rather time consuming to do well since they require very smooth blending to look good.
I'm no fan of either and personally cant see the point unless you want something to look like its NMM in real life (ie if your painting gold cloth, rather than shiny armour)
Basic difference is that NMM has a high colour contrast between shadow and highs, normally with the addition od sunflares etc.
SENMM goes into more detail and works well on large weapons, or for Chromed areas. Basic theory is to have a relfected horizon (painters get offended when I refer to it as a wobbly line...) with a darker lower half (Earth) and lighter uper half (sky).
As for what colours, I've never talked to two painters who use the same technique. Personally, I thin paints to almos a wash consistency and add very thin layers building up the highlight rather than mix different shades, other prefer to mix dozens of different shades and work through it that way.
Here's the colour systems I've tried and would repeat. Note many of the layers are mixed.
For Silver:
Codex grey, black wash, highlight through to elf grey.
For Chrome:
Space wolf grey, blue/black mixed wash, up through various blue, grey & brown layers, takes forever, never got it 100%.
For gold (realistic)
Snakebite leather, highlight through bubonic to bleached bone & white if wanted.
For gold (fantasy)
undercoat SW grey (assuning black undercoat). Fiery orange, work right through all yellows to white._________________ Cheers, Paul "TuffSkull" T. http://hobbybrush.com - My New Website, with thousands of painted Mini Pics :) http://hobbybrush.blogspot.com - My Hobby Blog TuffSkull's notepad- My Old Blog on Wargames Wiki.
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centurion
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Post subject: metallic look Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:46 pm |
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Brothers,
Thanks for the help. Though it seems a bit out of my league, I'll give it a try and see how it comes out.
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