Lahmian Medium as a finish/varnish?

[Zephaniah Adriyen]

So, I've done up some decal work for my Wolves. However, as a result of using 'Ardcoat for the varnish - and, by the way, this was an expected outcome, but I'm looking to fix it - the pauldrons are all shiny. I'm wondering if, since Lahmian Medium's got a satin finish like regular GW paints, it could be used as a finishing coat over the 'Ardcoat to return the satin finish to the Averland Sunset/Agrax Earthshade colors underneath.

[BadgersinHills]

I think it works. Never tried it myself, though. 

[Skywrath]

I'm curious to hear about this as well. I seem to run into issues when I use nuln oil on top of stormhost silver as a general glaze. Would Lahriman medium work on lighter colours, such as stormhost silver?

[No Foes Remain]

You need the technical Stormshield. That's the matt/satin varnish that will give you the finish you want and its also the one I use on my models.

 

 

Edit: Here's Peachy using it on a stormcast model:

 

 

Edited May 8, 2020 by No Foes Remain

[Firedrake Cordova]

I'm wondering if, since Lahmian Medium's got a satin finish like regular GW paints, it could be used as a finishing coat over the 'Ardcoat to return the satin finish to the Averland Sunset/Agrax Earthshade colors underneath.

Darren Latham uses it for this matting down gloss finishes, so I'm going with "yes" (or you could just varnish the model with matt/satin varnish when it's finished :))

Edited May 8, 2020 by Firedrake Cordova

[Brother Casman]

I generally use 'Ardcoat to make a nice surface for a decal, apply the decal, go back over the decal with 'Ardcoat, then go over the whole thing with Lahmian Medium. As an example, here's a top-down shot of my Imperial Knight (from a couple years ago).

The finish might look slightly different in bright lights, but ymmv.

[Guiltysparc]

Ya, I finish my decal work with lahmian medium as well, works great.