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Anyone have recommendations for good metallic spray paints besides Leadbelcher? I want something brighter to play with the Contrast paints on, but I have yet to find a decent option. Has anyone found one they like?
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I would say check out Tamiya or maybe army painter. I've used Tamiya's metallic light blue, purple, and now their black and its been a great product. They have quite a few products available if you google "Tamiya metallic silver" that come in their rattle can sprayers. Army painter colour primer has a gun metal and a platemail sprays you could research into as well. I think I used the gun metal on iron warriors and it was a nice but dark metallic. Just a note, army painter's colour primer is pretty tough stuff to paint strip so do be warned about that, I learned the hard way.

 

Hope this helps.

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Here's a comparison pic I found for the two suggested Army Painter sprays. Personally I have had less than impressive results with the three different paints from this line that I have used but I am entirely willing to admit it's likely down to preference of finish. Lots of people I know absolutely love them.

 

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EDIT: Here's another pic of it used on Immortals.

 

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When I used plate mail metal it looked awful - not sure why, but it's turned me off Army Painter sprays entirely. It ended up looking like the color of a chain link fence - no luster at all, and it wasn't very smooth either. Maybe I just had a bad can or something but it didn't look at all like those pictures.
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I use a Rustoleum Metallic Spray, a chrome paint. My GW manager shudders every time I mention it, but it gives me good results. He's trying to convince me otherwise, though I'm not sure he'll succeed.

 

I get good results from it, but it is very clearly chrome, not a regular necron color. I am afraid you won't have the results you'd be seeking, depending on what you're looking for, Tyriks.

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Really? It's my (and everyone else's) classic leadbelcher/nuln oil combo. Personally I think it looks so bright because there's nothing to break up the colour at all on the spine and the only colour at the moment to compare it to is black.

 

On the occasion I've wanted a brighter silver (not so much with my Crons but elsewhere in my painting) I go back over the nuln wash with a drybrush of leadbelcher and then a drybrush of mithril silver (now runefang steel) and it usually gets pretty darn shiny.

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I'm not a fan of Army Painter sprays. I've heard that Army Painter have improved their quality control since, but I was turned off immediately when I bought two of the same spray cans years ago and got two different tones of colour.

 

I suppose the questions when it comes to Metallics are: do you have an airbrush? And are you afraid to work with enamel or alcohol based paints?

 

Tamiya chrome is really bright when airbrushed. Its an accrylic paint and can be used to modulate / preshade with darker tamiya metallics.

 

Vallejo have their liquid metals range which is their top range for metallics. Its alcohol based so you can't clean your brushes or thin the paint with water as a fore warning. Vallejo also has their usual model air / game air metallics which are accrylics.

 

AK Interactive has a similar range called Extreme Metals which you're able to polish if you so desire, but its enamel based I believe. AK, like vallejo, also has their standard metallics which are accrylic.

 

(Quick side note, Enamel based paints get alot of stigma in the wargaming community. See them as another tool available to you because there are things you can do with enamel based paints which you can't do with accrylics)

 

If you don't have an airbrush and are limited to spray cans, thats fine. Leadbelcher is a safe investment because for some reason all citadel sprays are pretty thin if done properly, but you can use other brands too:

 

Vallejo also sells spray cans which the reviews are very high for.

 

Tamiya spray cans previously mentioned are great. But, they get expensive if painting an army's worth of miniatures because the cans are tiny. (Tamiya brands their stuff for painting scale models so their size of can is suited for painting one or two scale models for context.) Just make sure you get the right type of spray, because they also do polycarbonate sprays as well.

 

I've already mentioned my personal aversion to Army Painter sprays, but some people rate them. Do your own research and come up to your own opinion on them.

 

Warehouse grade sprays (Bunnings grade as we call it in Australia) as previously mentioned such as Rustoleum, Dulux and White Knight also works quite well. There's lots of colours, there's even chrome versions and they're often far cheaper then "hobby sprays." However, pay mind that they're often enamel based and they're often thicker paint (ie being house paint) so you need to pay attention to how you're spraying your miniatures so you don't clog up the detail. Also be careful that you're picking the right type of paint finish with warehouse grade sprays: nothing worse then grabbing a gloss instead of a matt paint and going "****!" after you've sprayed your minis.

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I know it's not a metallic spray but (for something like necrons etc) i spray base in chaos black (lightly) and then do Mithril silver* (i still have a new pot on my desk :wub: )

mixed with Lahmian medium instead of water and base coat like that,metals are really rich over a black basecoat and since its necrons you don't need to worry about yellows or flesh coats

and what your wanting to do with the contrasts over a bright metal ,it'll work there too.

 

cheers, Mithril

 

*replace Mithril Silver with Runefang Silver 

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I recently used Tamika TS-42 Light Gun Metal and found it a bit lighter than Leadbelcher (maybe equivalent to IronBreaker?). Over here a can of Leadbelcher is Y2500 but a can of TS-42 is about Y500. Smaller but volume wise I think it’s cheaper.

If I were to do a Necron army, that would be my go-to. Perhaps with a lighter Tamiya for zenithal.

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There's a hobby place right by my house that hates 40k but they have a lot of Tamiya. I might have to stop in and look for that! Thanks for the heads up!
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