Metallics question

[knarthex]

Hello again!

Wondering how people go about lightening or darkening their metallic paints.

 I usually try to get my silvers and golds in  at least 3 shades, but wonder if you could add white to bring the color even lighter.

For example GW Boltgun Metal, Chainmail, and Mithril Silver, is one example, Dwarf Bronze, Shining Gold, and Burnished Gold.

I personally have never tried this, I am wondering if anyone has, and what there results were...

 

Thanks

8)

George

[Loim]

Depending on how light I want to go I add Truesilver or Pearl White, those are the RMS colors. 

[knarthex]

Thanks!

I know that metallics can be a bit odd, but I didn't know what would or wouldn't work.

Guess I'll need to experiment.

 

8)

George

[Pingo]

I mix in other colors or glaze them over.

 

I painted this using a single shade of gold and a single shade of silver, lightened and (mostly) darkened with other colors.

 

If I needed to lighten silver I might mix in pearlescent white.

[Auberon]

Yes, you can highlight metallics with white, and here's a tutorial for you on one way to do it:

 

http://monkeyman7x.com/articles/metals-silver/

 

That said, it's not something I personally do much.  Lately I've been painting monsters, and I generally want them to be a bit darker than the heroes.  I do often shade using glazes of paint though.

[czebas]

i use very dark metallics (vallejo model air and scale 75) up to very bright and if i need to adjust color or brightness I use glazes. it is easier to glaze in mid tones and shadows over a lighter base than the reverse.

Edited August 4, 2015 by czebas

[ub3r_n3rd]

I'm a fan of shaded metallics and TMM (True Metallic Metals).

 

A few resources:

Shaded Metallics - Reaper Forum post

TMM - Massive Voodoo

[fishnjeeps]

I've recently had some success with using metalics as a glaze over opaque colors. this way I can shade the opaques like you usually would then let them look metal with a mettalic glaze. I've only tried this with blue thus far and it gives a very deep blued steel look.

 

 

ETA: Here is a link to the figure I did this with.

 

http://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/58990-nai-khanon-reptus-hero/?hl=nai-khanon

Edited August 4, 2015 by fishnjeeps

[ub3r_n3rd]

I've recently had some success with using metalics as a glaze over opaque colors. this way I can shade the opaques like you usually would then let them look metal with a mettalic glaze. I've only tried this with blue thus far and it gives a very deep blued steel look.

 

That's shaded metallics. 

[fishnjeeps]

 

I've recently had some success with using metalics as a glaze over opaque colors. this way I can shade the opaques like you usually would then let them look metal with a mettalic glaze. I've only tried this with blue thus far and it gives a very deep blued steel look.

 

That's shaded metallics. 

 

Good to know I don't have to name my new-found technique...

[ub3r_n3rd]

 

 

I've recently had some success with using metalics as a glaze over opaque colors. this way I can shade the opaques like you usually would then let them look metal with a mettalic glaze. I've only tried this with blue thus far and it gives a very deep blued steel look.

 

That's shaded metallics. 

 

Good to know I don't have to name my new-found technique...

 

 

Michael Proctor (Clever Crow) taught a class at ReaperCon on it, amazing class, very informative. 

[dsmiles]

I've recently had some success with using metalics as a glaze over opaque colors. this way I can shade the opaques like you usually would then let them look metal with a mettalic glaze. I've only tried this with blue thus far and it gives a very deep blued steel look.

 

 

ETA: Here is a link to the figure I did this with.

 

http://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/58990-nai-khanon-reptus-hero/?hl=nai-khanon

Just FYI, Vallejo makes a Metallic Medium that works great for this. It's just a translucent metallic medium. You can either mix it with a color to get that metallic color, or thinly apply it over a color to metal it up, as it were.

[Sergeant_Crunch]

Well, I really thing Master of Puppets was their best album...oh...'metallics' not 'Metallica'

 

 

Yeah, there's a number of ways to modify metallic paints, though to be honest, the metallic triads that Reaper sells provides enough variation for me most of the time. Occasionally I'll use shaded metallics to get a specific color.

[CashWiley]

As mentioned, Pearl White is probably what you're after. It's a metallic white.

[knarthex]

As mentioned, Pearl White is probably what you're after. It's a metallic white.

A Reaper paint?

 

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George