Re: Metallic coloring, was: Painting irridium vehicles

Sean Bayan Schoonmaker wrote:

>There are a few different ways to get "metal" effects. (I'm sure that
>there's many more than I present here, but I've actually used these.)
>
>(1) Metal paint, which doesn't really look good, as it's not scaled
well.

Agreed

>(2) Testors Metalizer paints. You spray these on with an airbrush and
>then buff them out. You end up getting a really good effect for scales
>of about 1/50 to 1/150.

Considering that these days, 1 figure or a couple bottles of paint or a 
gaming book are huge outlays for my meager budget, buying an airbrush is

prohibitive for the time being.

>(3) Bare Metal adhesive foil. Designed for model cars and planes, this
>stuff looks like metal because it is metal. Apply, rub down, and
presto.
>It takes a little practice to get right, but it looks great. I wouldn't
>advise it for scales less then 1/100.

Might work for my D&D 3 Barbarian a la Scottish highlander's claymore,
but 
for my DSII stuff and (Possibly in the future) getting into FT, doesn't 
sound like the option.

>(4) Non-metal paint for metal effects. Also known as "scale" painting,
>because when you look at metal from a long way away, I doesn't look
like
>metal (much like looking at a small scale miniature "close up").
Rackham
>does this to excellent effect on their figures, and some GW staff
>painters also do this very well. The smaller the scale, the more
>appropriate this technique is.

Considering my skills as a painter, It looks like I'm up the proverbial 
riverine tributary sans navigational/locomotive implement.

Brian Bilderback aka Bilder(insert pun of choice)

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis
is 
of no use."

				 - S. Freud

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