It's All Shades of.... Blue?

[Meals]

Ok, so following some discussion with mates back home, who all know their stuff, apparently I've gotten the highlighting/shading on the blade backwards.   

I've basically just done standard highlighting which, while it looks good, isn't proper NMM. The colour theory of metals is pretty intense, and completely counter-intuitive to regular highlighting. So back to the reading and I shall see what happens on the other half of this girl's Chain Weapon.

Try, try, try again as they say...

[Dave]

best thing possible, get a picture of a cylinder of metal with the light hitting it from the same angle.

[Meals]

Just read a great article where you simply take a photo of the model before you basecoat it with a representative light source and it shows the true reflections of the metal as you need to paint it.

Its kinda brilliant in its simplicity.

[Angelus Mortifer]

Linky by any chance?

Wanting to have a stab at NMM before the year is out. The Sanguinor is looking at me wondering why he hasn't been done yet ;)

[Meals]

Heres a few I was pointed to:

http://www.jenova.dk/NMM.htm
http://www.coolminiornot.com/articles/1339-trick-to-realise-easy-nmm
http://www.coolminiornot.com/articles/1054-my-thoughts-on-nmm-updated

Most of its more the theory, rather than specific guides of painting models, since its pretty difficult to do a catch all for every type/shape/light angle of metallic reflections. I'm getting the feeling its alot of practice makes perfect

[Dave]

I agree that it generally looks good, I think it looks even better when you take the technique and use metallic paints!

[cunningmatt]

Thank you Matt, I was feeling really stupid at not knowing what NMM meant and didn't want to ask anyone.

Phew! Glad I wasn't the only one!

Matt, the NMM and the flesh aren't using blue, mainly because I want to get the basics of NMM down before trying to branch out. Blue flesh I could have tried but its tricky to do without getting some Zombie looking model and I figured the rest would make up for it.

Shows you what I know!

Ok, so following some discussion with mates back home, who all know their stuff, apparently I've gotten the highlighting/shading on the blade backwards.   

I've basically just done standard highlighting which, while it looks good, isn't proper NMM. The colour theory of metals is pretty intense, and completely counter-intuitive to regular highlighting. So back to the reading and I shall see what happens on the other half of this girl's Chain Weapon.

Try, try, try again as they say...

For a painting project that apparently went wrong, it looks amazing! Don't beat yourself up too much.

[Meals]

Well after some reading and looking at what others have done, I practiced on my Souless' sword. I'm actually really enjoying this learning process, its really revived my love of painting which had drifted away somewhat lately. Expanding my horizons and whatnot. I seriously encourage you all to try something new painting-wise, it's so much fun. Anyway the result:



Photo lighting was bad so it looks darker than it is, but still too dark to be realistic, but the highlights are correct.

So I went back to the Assassin and did the rest of the chain blade:



I'm pretty damn happy with the blade on the right, you can see the difference between wrong nmm and right nmm. Needs a bit more white to make it really pop but good enough for now. Practice makes perfect 

[cunningmatt]

Still looking good!

[Meals]

Was just pointed to the single greatest tutorial known to man:

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?showtopic=105449

The model in question won a Golden Daemon, and he's explained how he painted every detail on the model very clearly. Its just beautiful...