Scorched Metals NMM style

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Scottdsp748

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Hi everyone...its mega late (early?) here in Charlotte and I\'ve been screwing around with some oddball ideas for painting that were keeping me awake. I\'ve come up with a scorched metal scheme that looks similar to the results from superheating or subjecting metals to an electric charge (most often seen in titanium which has drastic color changes when heated and cooled over time). I think with some refinement this could be a really cool technique, especially for sci-fi minis.

I started with a \"typical NMM\" bit...blended from GW shadow grey through space wolves grey to white. I then layered inks over the metal starting from purple at the \"business end\" barrel and proceeded through blue, yellow, chestnut, and brown ink as i worked my way back. Here\'s my result so far...the picture sucks but its the best I can do without waking anyone up with the \"portable sun\"!!!

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Let me know what you think and any ideas toward improving this technique would be appreciated. I think I\'m going to go to the motorcycle shop Monday and take a photo of a scorched titanium exhaust system for reference and work from that. Haha! I have managed to find a way to link my two hobbies! lol

Well, maybe I can sleep now! :bouncy:

-Scott
 
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Dedwrekka

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Very cool look! I wonder how well it\'d work on a larger scale though, as most techniques take a bit more refineing on larger scale minis.
 
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Scottdsp748

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It seems my image has been un-hosted...does anyone out there have some good image hosting? If you do and don\'t mind hosting the picture, e-mail me at scottdsp748@yahoo.com and I\'ll send you the picture. Thanks for the comments thus far and I will be posting pics of the whole model later on today.

-Scott
 
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DennisMech

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Originally posted by Scottdsp748
It seems my image has been un-hosted...does anyone out there have some good image hosting? If you do and don\'t mind hosting the picture, e-mail me at scottdsp748@yahoo.com and I\'ll send you the picture. Thanks for the comments thus far and I will be posting pics of the whole model later on today.

-Scott
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I\'d help you out, but you might as well just start your own account at http://photobucket.com/ it has great free image hosting. Also, it doesn\'t just reject stuff over the size limit, it resizes it for you. Please post it soon, I\'m interested to see it :)
 
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DennisMech

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I can\'t believe it\'s not butter!

erhm, NMM.

really, that looks much more realistic than any NMM I\'ve seen! I\'d love to see you try it out on a bigger surface so I can see it better.

By the way, you\'re welcome for the host URL, it\'s hard to find good free image hosters.
 
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Scottdsp748

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Thanks for the comments everyone! I am really satisfied with my initail results with this, so I\'m going to have another go at this technique in the next couple of days. I\'ll take step by step photos and try to have a tutorial made up by the weekend. Any suggestions for a mini to try this on? Preferably a GW mini since the GW store is about 1/2 a mile from my house.

-Scott
 
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dauber22

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Very cool!

Great looking technnique! I can\'t wait for the tutorial!

Want a real challenge? Why not try it on a Necron? Make him look like he\'s been attacked by \"The Burninator\" !!!
 
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Scottdsp748

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Cool idea! I\'ll pick up a necron lord this week and use it as my tutorial piece...should be a good ebay item as well.

-Scott
 
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