Painting black armour

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strewart

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Hi all, I want to paint some Warriors of Chaos models with black armour. At the moment my very simple technique is just paint it black, highlight edges grey, then add gloss varnish. This is perfectly fine for RnF models, but I am considering pushing myself a bit further for monsters and characters. I have never tried NMM before and very recently heard of TMM as a technique and I'm possibly looking into trying that a bit. Looking around for inspiration, this is my favourite so far:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/292913?browseid=10032850

I have no idea how to even attempt that. Any ideas how to get close to that?
 
MAXXxxx

MAXXxxx

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well, for that metallic version you start with a dark metal as a base color and gradually in small steps lighte it, while painting not only on the edges, but on the surface too (for reference you can even use the picture of the mini you linked).
If the jump was too big, then you bring them together with a few glazes of dark color.

There is no real secret here, just instead of 3 steps (black, grey line, gloss) you do 15-20 or even much much more.
 
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Yuggoth

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strewart said:
Hi all, I want to paint some Warriors of Chaos models with black armour. At the moment my very simple technique is just paint it black, highlight edges grey, then add gloss varnish. This is perfectly fine for RnF models, but I am considering pushing myself a bit further for monsters and characters. I have never tried NMM before and very recently heard of TMM as a technique and I'm possibly looking into trying that a bit. Looking around for inspiration, this is my favourite so far:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/292913?browseid=10032850

I have no idea how to even attempt that. Any ideas how to get close to that?
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There are some good tutorials around (here, on wamp, YouTube and elsewhere) that might be helpful in this case. To get something this advanced you will probably need read up on serveral techniques:

Glazing / layering/ juicing/ blending /use of filters -> Many names and slightly different approaches for a simple truth: The three step "base-highlight-shade" that GW recomends will not be enough, you will need to build your colours very carefully with many more steps to archive something that smooth. Get some glaze medium and/or retarder and build yourself a wet palette. Maybe look into wetblending or two-brush-blending.

Zenital-highlighting: This means you place your shadows and highlights according to an (imagined) lightsource and not just on any edges and parts that stick out. You can take a reference foto unter a strong lightbulb or use a lighter spray-on primer on a dark base for this.

Colour-theory: You will want to know which colours can give additional interest to your blacks, how variations in saturation and glossiness can help you sell TMM and so on.

Battle damage: For convincing rust, oil and stratches on the armor. Even if many articles focus on maschines and terrain, many things can be usefull for fantasy-minis too
 
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athens.fantasy

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MAXXxxx said:
except that video is about painting metallics the TMM way and not painting black.
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that's correct but I am answering the original question where strewart referenced that specific image/technique:

strewart said:
I have never tried NMM before and very recently heard of TMM as a technique and I'm possibly looking into trying that a bit. Looking around for inspiration, this is my favourite so far:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/292913?browseid=10032850

I have no idea how to even attempt that. Any ideas how to get close to that?
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strewart

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That colour is a bit lighter than what I am looking for, I want it to have a pretty glossy polished look and be mostly black. The technique seems obvious enough, highlight greys up to white in the right spot right? But its hard to execute.

And yes the MM one is really cool and I would be happy to give TMM a go instead. I might look into the dvd, but I don't know how much I would use it.

Since posting this thread I put the black aside for a while to build my skill and focused on Yuggoths post and learned how to use glazes. I am enjoying it so far and getting good results. Metallic paints are still a bit difficult. If you darken them with black they lose a lot of the metallic property. And I cannot get them to thin nicely.
 
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