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Battleground Games & Hobbies => Painting & Modeling => Topic started by: Mattarias on July 27, 2010, 11:17:16 AM
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Hey BG, I was wondering if anyone knew how to come up with a good "metallic" red color? Something akin to this (http://coolminiornot.com/index.php?id=129478)? I'm unsure how to get a good effect- Washes over metallics? NMM? Something else? Anyone have any suggestions?
I want to paint a metallic red and gold scheme on my Saint, but I'm slightly afraid of messing up, so I'd like to get what I need to do down pat and practice on a few models before I commit to painting her, y'know? Any help would be appreciated!
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I mix my paint.
Use blood red and mix it 3-1 ratio with mithril silver. To give the red a little deeper tome mix it with boltgun metal. Then wash with Baal Red to give the red more depth in the creases.
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That just looks like maybe wash over crimsion gore or blood red. If you wanted to make a metallic red you could try mixing a little mithral silver in with blood red see what happens.
GW use to make metallic's for a lot of color's. If you look around on internet you maybe able to find one. I still have a metallic green that GW made in 2nd edition of 40k days
Could try;
http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/list/ps.htm use PS-15 its a spray paint. just prime the model white 1st then metallic red?
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Mithril/Boltgun (depending on the shade you want) plus a color looks awesome. Probably not that color you linked, but I'd at least give it a try. I used it with blue to make a metallic boltgun blue and it looked incredible.
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Hm, thanks. I actually tried mixing it with shining gold- came out pretty sweet! If anyone wants the recipe, it's:
1/2 tsp shining gold,
1/2 tsp dwarf bronze (I'd actually recommend more bronze, less gold, looking back),
1/2 tsp blood red,
1 tsp red gore
~1/4 tsp mechrite red.
All thinned, of course. Came out pretty nice. Sorry for the teaspoons, I have this little medicine syringe thing that I use to measure my paints. :P