This week Galharen is testing a bunch of chrome paints for miniatures and sees how they work and which application method is the best!
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In this painting tutorial, he shows how to use chrome paints, which is the best, and how they actually work for mini painting.
This video is quicker than usual, but that doesn’t make it any less cool!
Testing Chrome Paints For Miniatures: Galharen Painting Tutorial
For this, he will use the six chrome paints from Green Stuff World. The paints are alcohol-based paints, meaning you cannot use water to dilute the paints, so instead, he’s going to use 95% pure alcohol on all the paints to get them the consistency he wants.
Gold
To start, he will basecoat all the shields with GW black Primer. This didn’t give the effect he wanted, but he might have done something wrong. It is still a fabulous gold, but it didn’t give the mirror effect he was looking for.
Bronze
This time, he applied every line with a new bit of paint and went with only vertical lines; this gave a much better effect than his first try. So be sure to keep reapplying paint and going in vertical lines.
Copper
Now, he will try and use an airbrush after applying it with a brush in shorter strokes. Since the first layer still showed some brush strokes, he went back with the airbrush.
He actually feels like the airbrush takes away from the effect so he wouldn’t recommend a second layer through the airbrush.
Short Strokes
He got the best results by applying very short brush strokes, as the paint dries quickly, and long brush strokes show too much. So, this time, he did shorter strokes and added new color to the brush almost constantly to get a more mirrored effect.
As you can see, this is far more mirrored.
Template Chrome Metal
For the last color, he returned with the shortest brush strokes, diluted it with alcohol, and reapplied paint constantly. This gave him the best results, and he could even see himself in the shield!
There is a slight learning curve, but you can get some really cool effects depending on how you apply the paint! Above is all the different colors after using the methods from the Chrome Metal step, and they all look great.
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