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[Captain jOE]

I'm painting up Jerach the Undead Hunter as a paladin for a D&D campaign. I wanted to give him white armor like these Fire Emblem characters (more like the first than the second).



I kinda have an idea of how to go about it, but any advice that you guys could give me would be awesome :D.

[DixonGrfx]

Here is what I do. I go to Walmart and buy a bag of plastic army men. Then a lite primer coat. Now paint test to your hearts desire. Anything you don't like, toss. Pearl finish, I would start with your brightest silver metallic paint and mix in some white. That's where I would start.


Thing is, metal paint has a tendency to be "black" or "grey" ish.. you may want to experiment with clear glitter. Paint on your white, then sprinkle on glitter while wet. Or paint white. Then add glitter to gloss varnish and paint on... or...

Just don't use your good brushes to experiment with.

[captenglish]

I would use RMS 09039 Pure White overall, RMS 09063 Ghost White for the ornamentation and highlight the whole thing with RMS 09100 Pearl White. The pearl white mght take a couple of coats. Just my thoughts; I did this once on a unicorn, I liked the effect, just not the execution

[Leader of the Rats]

Try a Pearlizing Medium, not sure where you live, but here in Canada there's Deco Art and Plaid Folk Art paints, I tried the Deco Art one, works pretty good, but I find, multiple thin coats best for it. Takes a long time.

[Kuro Cleanbrush]

Hey, cap'n!

I actually just bought Pearl White the other day, so I haven't had a chance to fiddle with it yet, but it really strikes me as a strong white with a slight metalic luster to it. I've obviously never tried this combo before, but I'd suggest trying something like building up to Pearl White with just the slightest touch of silver in it, and then slowly applying subtle glazes of light greens, pinks, and purples to the shadow areas to give that "pearlescence" effect.

[zemjw]

I have used Daler Rowney pearescent ink with some success, although I haven't tried it with white.

I tend to mix the colour I want with the pearlescent silver. The mace and chainmail on the dwarf below were done using this technique and there's a bit more on the method I used at the bottom of this post.

[mikem91]

I think mixing a metallic glaze in with your white would give you a good demi-metallic effect. Reaper had a "Moon Silver" color in the Pro Paints line that could be ideal. I don't know if that got into MSP though.

[Stubbdog]

I would consider myself to be a 7 on the painters scale. Not bad. Not with the greats. I admit that I have tried the pearl white a few times and have never really had it work for me yet. But, that is probably a problem of the painter, not the paint.

I am actually going to go on a different direction and suggest that this would be a great opportunity for you to try a "pearl" version of NMM, using white, ghost white, maybe indigo, and a light khaki.

[Captain jOE]

Thanks for all of the great advice, guys! I'll fiddle around with a trashy test model before I try anything on my paladin. Hopefully I'll have pictures for you guys soonish.

[haldir]

You could always try Pearl White & water the heck out of it so it becomes a overcoat for the paint. I painted up a bard that I wanted to glam out during a speed paint at RCon over the weekend & got this tip from Martin Jones..

Also not sure you can get it anymore but Reaper did put out a Sophie Silver at last year's RCon (2011) that is very similar to Moon Silver.

[MonkeySloth]

I did something similar to the first photo of yours, which you can see below, just using about 4 shades of gray and one white. If you instead used an off white (like P3 Menos Base) and then glazed shades of gray and highlighted up with a white or brighter off white I think you could get the effect you're looking for.

[dks]

I've painted a mother-of-pearl effect on a few figures -- but only small areas like gemstones or jewelry. I used some purple and green in the shadows to give a hint of iridescence.
Good luck. Show off your results when you've finished!
Derek