Learning how to paint silver armor doesn’t have to be hard, check out this awesome tutorial and get your miniatures looking awesome!
Galharen has some amazing hobby content and if you need some sweet tips, you should follow him to get up on all your painting and conversion techniques!
This time around he paints up a bunch of Grey Knights, which is helpful if you need to know how to get the silver done. Let’s get into the tutorial!
How to Paint Silver Armor on Miniatures: Galharen Tutorial
Here’s the mini we’ll be painting up today a Castellan Crowe. Let’s see how to paint the silver armor on this miniature and get him looking good!
Step 1:
Starting with the airbrush, he loads up with Iron Warrior and goes over all the armor with it. Next, he takes Vallejo Silver and does this as a zenithal highlight style across the armor.
Step 2:
He uses Candy Blue Ink from Green Stuff World and tries to achieve a mist effect from the airbrush. This will blend the silver together and is super important to do light. He hits all the cracks and deeper areas to break up the silver and give depth to the color. Doing it mainly from the bottom up. For some more final highlights here, he uses Mithril Silver and hits the smallest edges.
Step 3:
With Black Ink, he hits the deeper areas to give the armor some depth, he just uses the brush for this. Just hit all the gaps and such to give that 3-dimensional look. Staying with the brush, he goes with Mithril Silver and does some edge highlighting across the model. Then switches to an even lighter Silver from Vallejo to finish off the highlights.
Finished Armor:
There you have it! Some great-looking armor without that much trouble! Check out a finished miniature using this same how to paint silver tutorial:
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About the Author: Travis Pasch
Travis Pasch
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About Travis Pasch: Travis has been a Warhammer 40k hobbyist since the 1990s, playing the game since Third Edition. Through extensive traveling, he’s seen a lot of the miniatures hobby from across the world, giving him a unique perspective on the latest gaming topics and trends.
Travis’s brother even owns a commission painting studio, where he’s picked up a lot of good advice and techniques for painting Warhammer and tabletop miniatures over the years, as well. Travis joined the Spikey Bits team in 2019 and has been the lead writer since 2020.
Currently, he’s working on converting all his 40k Adeptus Mechanicus models and becoming a true tech enjoyer, complete with both sad and happy robot noises!
