Painting Brass/Bronze/Copper/Metal in General

[awilden]

Hi all, i was going to be putting an order through soon for some models, and wanted to grab some paints (free shipping over certain amount, so might as well). I wanted to try to get together a nice selection of paints to be able to do all sorts of different metals found in Chaos Space Marines (Nurgle corroded/rotten metals) Blood Angels (bright shiny golds and silvers) and Necrons (pretty much all the metals i guess lol).

So far the selection of metal paints i have is this;

Vallejo Model Air:

71.062

Aluminium Metallic

71.064

Chrome Metallic

71.065

Steel Metallic

71.072

Gungrey Metallic

71.073

Black Metallic

Vallejo Liquid Metal

790

Silver

791

Gold

792

Old Gold

797

Copper

Vallejo Game Colour

72.054

Gunmetal

 

So far I was looking at getting;

71.066

Brass Metallic

71.068

Copper Metallic

71.069

Rust Metallic

And the Nihilakh Oxide technical (already have a lot of rust pigments from Secret Weapon also).

 

I tend to like the Vallejo paints in general, are there any other paints from the model air/game air series that would go well with the ones listed above to get good brass/bronze/copper?

Any suggestions/comments would be helpful, thanks :-)

 

(i also have these GW paints, so can do highlights with them for small areas that don't need to be airbrushed on etc)

Leadbelcher

Warplock Bronze

Auric Armour Gold

Flash Gitz Yellow

Gehenna's Gold

Runefang Steel

 

[Razblood]

The Air versions of Tinny Tin as well as Charred Brown to mix with Gold for your basecoats would be options.

 

Can't remember if they are in the Model or Game air ranges?

[Ironwulf]

Tinny Tin and Charred Brown are in the Game Color line. At the Warstore, I see that Charred Brown is available in Game Air, but I'm not sure about Tinny Tin as a pre-thinned airbrush color. If it is NOT available, you should still be able to thin it with some airbrush medium and apply it through an airbrush… It just takes a tiny bit more work on your behalf.