Hi all
I have a Bretonnian Knight that I'll be painting up for Warhammer Quest 1995 (images of it below). I'd like to make the armour parts look something like in the first image below but I have an image in my head of a hero wearing plate armour that is super shiny silver with a kind of other worldly (in a good way) very slight blue shine/glow to it, as though the armour has been forged from something really exotic, perhaps a bit like mithril.
I've been stuck for a very long while though on just how to achieve this. I do know that I don't want to go down the route of the NMM technique though, it's cartoony, and I can't do it.
With my Warrior Priestess, I tried using Citadel Grey Knights Steel, and whilst that turned out OK, it's not quite what I am looking for on the Bretonnian Knight.
I did a test on one leg with Vallejo Metal Color Silver, highlighted with Vallejo Metal Color Aluminium and shaded with black. That looked OK but still not quite as bright as I'd like it to look, and obviously there wasn't any particular blue "glow" to it.
I also tried on the other leg Vallejo Metal Color Aluminium, with black shading. That looked a little more like the blue glowy shiny silver I was looking for, because to my eyes Vallejo Metal Color Aluminium seems to have a very slight blue tone to it, but I don't seem to have anywhere to go for a highlight colour for it, unless Vallejo Metal Color Chrome is orders of magnitude brighter and will serve as a highlight!?
Both leg tests were done over a gloss black undercoat.
I'm thinking shading with blue wouldn't quite look right, so I'd like to stick with black shading. I'm also thinking a blue glaze would look wrong also - might as well use Grey Knights Steel as it'll probably look the same.
So, I'm struggling with what paints to use as a) base colour and b) highlights, either straight out of the pot or to mix up.
You guys were very helpful in pointing me in the right direction when I was trying to achieve dark black/brown leather on my Witch Hunter model, so I'm hoping you guys can help with this?
Thanks in advance.
Example image - from the movie Excalibur, 1981.
This is the original box artwork that I'll be following as a colour guide -
And this is the model -
I have a Bretonnian Knight that I'll be painting up for Warhammer Quest 1995 (images of it below). I'd like to make the armour parts look something like in the first image below but I have an image in my head of a hero wearing plate armour that is super shiny silver with a kind of other worldly (in a good way) very slight blue shine/glow to it, as though the armour has been forged from something really exotic, perhaps a bit like mithril.
I've been stuck for a very long while though on just how to achieve this. I do know that I don't want to go down the route of the NMM technique though, it's cartoony, and I can't do it.
With my Warrior Priestess, I tried using Citadel Grey Knights Steel, and whilst that turned out OK, it's not quite what I am looking for on the Bretonnian Knight.
I did a test on one leg with Vallejo Metal Color Silver, highlighted with Vallejo Metal Color Aluminium and shaded with black. That looked OK but still not quite as bright as I'd like it to look, and obviously there wasn't any particular blue "glow" to it.
I also tried on the other leg Vallejo Metal Color Aluminium, with black shading. That looked a little more like the blue glowy shiny silver I was looking for, because to my eyes Vallejo Metal Color Aluminium seems to have a very slight blue tone to it, but I don't seem to have anywhere to go for a highlight colour for it, unless Vallejo Metal Color Chrome is orders of magnitude brighter and will serve as a highlight!?
Both leg tests were done over a gloss black undercoat.
I'm thinking shading with blue wouldn't quite look right, so I'd like to stick with black shading. I'm also thinking a blue glaze would look wrong also - might as well use Grey Knights Steel as it'll probably look the same.
So, I'm struggling with what paints to use as a) base colour and b) highlights, either straight out of the pot or to mix up.
You guys were very helpful in pointing me in the right direction when I was trying to achieve dark black/brown leather on my Witch Hunter model, so I'm hoping you guys can help with this?
Thanks in advance.
Example image - from the movie Excalibur, 1981.
This is the original box artwork that I'll be following as a colour guide -
And this is the model -
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