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Originally Posted by Luke Harvey  Now I have two questions.
1. I have chestnut ink which I normally use on my golds... but i was thinking it would be too much for a model like dante where the gold is making up 90% of the model. Would you recommend it?
2. How do you paint metallics? I've painted lots of GreyKnights in the past and always worried when doing so. Basically if you thin them down you get really patchy colours and otherwise you'd paint straight on it but I fear that it will get to thick and the model will look gluggy. Do you do heaps of thin layers or few thicker coats. |
I personally *hate* inks, generally.
The Scorched Brown wash (or Mud, if you decide to go for it) does the same thing, only better, and isn't hella-shiny.
So, in answer to no. 1, I wouldn't reccomend it, no.
For no. 2, I use thinned paint for metallics, just like everything else. Generally, I haven't found that they become overly patchy, but golds certainly do occasionally.
Basically, because you are working up in a decent ammount of layers, it isn't really something to worry about.
Any patchiness in one layer should be covered by the next and the next, etc etc.
If it's something you're really worried about, add a little Mithril Silver (basically white paint plus metallic-ness) to each layer, to up the metallic content, and add some glazes of Scorched Brown after most layers (to darken it down colour-wise again).
-t.