How to paint blue or worst case blue-ish metal?

theghr · Post by **theghr** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 3:21 am

Hi. You know of any paint that is like those bronze, silver and gold metallic colors, but in a blue color? Or blue-ish? If not, how can i get this effect?

Thanks.

connexion · Post by **connexion** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 3:32 am

Vallejo has a "metallic medium" which can be mixed with any other paint to make it "metallic".

If you have Vallejo silver you can try diluting it and mixing with another colour (blue in your case) especially the transparent inks. Might work.

Something I did in the past was paint gun metal/silver and then apply a coast of a transparent paint.

Depends on the effect you need but I hope this has been of some help.

ulvardar · Post by **ulvardar** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 3:44 am

Vallejo Model Air Metallic Artic Blue.

Loads of options in this post:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/po ... 65822.page

spubbbba · Post by **spubbbba** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:26 am

Aside from metallic blue paint as mentioned above you could also apply several layers of blue glaze to silver. That would get you a very light greyish metallic blue.

axia · Post by **axia** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:36 am

There are two ways: a true metallic and a no metal metal way. For the metallic way as someone suggested paint the metal and after apply few glazes of the metalli blue vallejo air, or the scale75 metallic blue. For the no metal metal way you can do as I made adding a bluish green to the greay to have a subtle bluish look. Two pics of example:

If you have more questions I'm here

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 11:54 am

I am starting to hate Axia's posts

axia · Post by **axia** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 11:59 am

Aahahah why?

Don__Vito · Post by **Don__Vito** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 6:40 pm

Simple solution is mix blue ink or wash with silver.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 11:15 pm

axia wrote:Aahahah why?

It is just depressing to know how much effort I would have to put in to look no where near as good!

TheDoc · Post by **TheDoc** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 11:21 am

axia wrote:There are two ways: a true metallic and a no metal metal way. For the metallic way as someone suggested paint the metal and after apply few glazes of the metalli blue vallejo air, or the scale75 metallic blue. For the no metal metal way you can do as I made adding a bluish green to the greay to have a subtle bluish look. Two pics of example:

If you have more questions I'm here

This is just upsetting my painting mojo.... this is just too good. *not jealous... honest*

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