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Post by KittyNKing on Mar 31, 2006 12:58:07 GMT 12
Something odd I've been looking for... anyone have any ideas where to get metallic pink paint for minis? I've looked through the citadel and vallejo range, and obviously being a bit of a rare colour doesn't seem to be there.
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Post by dustand on Mar 31, 2006 18:37:33 GMT 12
Check Tamia and humbrol... they may have them, though they will likely be enamel paints and need turps or thinners for clean up... you may want to get a different brush for enamels as thinners take their toll on your brushes...
if you do use the same brushes, wash your brush in the appropriate cleaner before using the paint... so wash your brush in water before using acrilic and turps or thinners before using enamel... this will flush the brush of unwanted particles that could effect your work...
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Post by PitYak Studios on Mar 31, 2006 20:05:40 GMT 12
Humbrol definately used to do a metallic pink, a real cool colour it was too, I painted a few dark future cars with it.
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Post by KittyNKing on Apr 1, 2006 8:36:28 GMT 12
Cool, shall check those ranges. I'd like to avoid turps paints, but shall see. Anyone tried mixing colours to get something like this? I know for the citadel ones you can mix blue and mithril to get a nice metallic blue, but you kinda just get a grey mess with pink.
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Post by dustand on Apr 1, 2006 16:15:19 GMT 12
Mixing colours with metalics can get tricky... most paints are just a translucent base with pigment added to them. Metallics are often a similar but used a coloured base with metalic pigment... as silver uses a grey base you may be able to mix red with it to get a metalic pink
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Pirate Wench
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Post by Pirate Wench on Apr 2, 2006 22:55:52 GMT 12
a few things I have been wanting to try
1 Jaquard pearlescent powders, a very fine mmica powder in around 30 different colours, mixedin with an acrylic medium.. I actually have both here and have never bothered to try it til this reminded me that I'd been thinking about it
2 Gel pen ink, comes in all the funky metallic colours you can think of. No idea what would be used for clean up and thinning on this one though
3 pearl white paint, mixed with red. Again something I actually have butnever tried.
I can test out 1 and 3 tomorrow and post results here
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Post by PitYak Studios on Apr 3, 2006 10:52:15 GMT 12
I was thinking citadel magenta ink would give a good pink, but I haven't had a chance to try it yet, plus I've got no silver acrylic
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Pirate Wench
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Post by Pirate Wench on Apr 3, 2006 23:02:51 GMT 12
My experimentations today, i've tried to capture them as accurately as possible, but cammeras never catch the real beauty of metallics  1 Firstly the jaquard pearl powder mixed into acrylic glazing liquid, which is basically acrylic paint without any pigments in it. WOW ... I only have a blue pearl, but wow wow wow. intense metallic shimmery goodness in a vibrant cobalt blue. the powder is so fine that it mixes beautifully and goes on very smoothly, paint over a white base though for best purity of colour 2. second experiment, mixing the powder into white acrylic YUCK dirty greyissh blue with ever so faint hint of shimmer   3. the best for scrummy lumptious metallic brilliance, well my fave anyway. I used golden paints interference blue (fine) it has a slightly blue cast to the pearlescent shimmer as light catches it. I added a touch of a pure magenta red to colour it and got a pretty metallic pink with slightly purplish hue in the light 4. I tried the magenta tint in the interference gold and got an interesting result too, a pretty colour but slightly peachish with the gold highlights. i tried teh gold with a more orangey red in it as well, I'm so going to have to use this in something! 5. Then i tried plain white pearl powder in acrlylic medium tinted a touch with magenta, this was the prettiest purest pinky metallic of the lot 6. the last mix i tried was golden paint irridescent silver (fine) with a touch of magenta, this was a lovely slightly grey hued metallic, the golden paint silver is just purely silver mica suspended in a clear base, so there is not as much grey cast to it, this is the paint set I was using only I got mine for half that price, i must have lucked out heh. But worth it! you can buy golden fluid paints from a art supply shop in Wellington that I keep forgettingthe name of, or look up on the web to find a stockist.. or be like me and spend all your money overseas. You can buy them singly on ebay if you know what colour you are after. The interference and irridescent range are awesome cgi.ebay.com/Golden-16-Color-15-ml-Fluid-Acrylic-Paint-Set_W0QQitemZ8196427272QQcategoryZ31401QQcmdZViewItem |
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Post by Pirate Wench on Apr 3, 2006 23:11:56 GMT 12
just to add, these were fairly thickly applied to get instant results, on a miniature I would suggest 3 or 4 thin layers to build up the depth of colour and sheen. Over a decent solid white basecoat. So a few fine layers of white to level out the primer, and then hit it with the metallic mixes
oh yeah and probably should avoid these if you are a brush licker, golden paints do specify the toxicity level of each paint, some of them are not of the freely edible variety. But that is what you get once you enter into real artists colours zone vs hobby paints
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Post by burbsee on Apr 4, 2006 7:24:49 GMT 12
wow those are nice!!!
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Post by KittyNKing on Apr 4, 2006 15:49:13 GMT 12
Hey, some of those are perfect, thanks for the experiments, I shall have to try these soon.
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Post by PitYak Studios on Apr 11, 2006 18:31:16 GMT 12
Pirate, did you get your paints from gordon harris? I see they've got a pack reduced from $99 to $64. I'm going to treat myself.
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Post by pun13 on Apr 12, 2006 0:45:14 GMT 12
What I do if I cannot find I color in Metallic,
is first paint the kit in Testors Metalizers Chrome paint,
wait ten minutes and buff to a high shine.
Than take the color, in this case pink and add either floetrol or a thinning agent to really thin the paint down,
airbrush that ontop of the Chrome Paint, slowy building up the color, until the paint and the underlying chrome
met to make the paint look like metal.
Tom
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Post by Pirate Wench on Apr 12, 2006 14:31:22 GMT 12
I bought my set off ebay a few years ago, but it's been pretty awesome for toying around with and making up mixes. If the set at gordon harris is the same one, the 16 piece sample set then that's good value
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Post by PitYak Studios on Apr 12, 2006 14:46:32 GMT 12
I don't think it was 16, more like ten or a dozen, but they looked to be decent size bottles, not just samples. Going to have another look next time I'm in, and most likely splash the cash. I hate that shop, too damn easy to come out broke! I just discovered their book section last time I was in ... plus my wife now works just down the road from them, too easy to phone her up and ask "can you just pick up..."
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