@crazyredcoat It’s by no means needed. I just sometimes find if there’s only one or two small details that are metal they can be a bit stark in contrast. It’s not NMM but it kind of mimics the same highlight placement, if it’s done well which I don’t always do.
The Death Company’s metal is a classic metal, wash, higlight metals. The reiver’s blade is a bad example, the fanatic’s ball and chain are better.
The firefly’s MG barrel is just grey a few dots of gunmetal and a black and sepia mix wash. The taurox’s guns are a few layer of mixing between dark grey and chrome.
Oh, and the sherman and death company are satin varnished, the rest are matted.
@horati0nosebl0wer I try to not do the same thing to much in one go and make the batches be something a few hours work makes obvious progress. I didn’t do all the arrmour in one go, I got the main tank force done first. I’ll get the carriers and artillery done next. I need to keep seeing progress so I break it down into jobs I can do in a single sitting, last night got all the tracks/metal, rubber and uniform based on the carriers and stuarts so it looks like I’ve got more done than if a day only got the tracks done on half of all the tanks, artillery and carriers at once.
