henrywalker Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 So i have just tried 5 different methods of painting bulk silver for my new grey knights. i was trying to get a scale with very fast at one end and very good at the other. I was quite surprised that what was basically the fastest technique also ended up looking the best. the first one i tried i started with black and worked up through boltgun etc through to mithril and then various mixtures of mithril with more and more skull white. i sent ages working on shading and i ended up not liking the end result. it wasn't bad it just didn't reflect the time taken. the quickest i thought worked VERY well and i'm going to describe it below. it ended up very bright and clean but still with good shading. it is the same technique i used to paint my sanguinary guard gold. I'm sure this exists but i haven't seen it anywhere so here ya go. grey knights/sanguinary guard: undercoat skull white paint mithril silver/burnished gold (this will be a very patchy coat) wash heavily with Asrumen blue/Gryphone Sepia overbrush heavily with boltgun metal/dwarf bronze overbrush lightly with chainmail/burnished gold drybrush with mithril silver/(1:1 burnished gold:mithril Silver) this worked very nicely with my sanguinary guard and i really want to get hold of a grey knight to try the silver version on it works particularly well with the gold as it gives it a very strong bold quality which is hard to get with gold as it is quite pale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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