Hobby Cheating 57 - Heated Metal Gun Barrels 

That may be the nicest compliment I have ever gotten :)

Thank you, yes, I still use this effect to this day with relatively little change.

Thank you sir, much appreciated.

Very cool, that makes sense, the more you know! ;)

Straw color starts at about 400F, the blue you see is about 600F

I am not sure any of our sci-fi guns would work with the same effects as these. :) - I say rule of cool, if you like it, go for it.

Sorry about that, at this time I wasn't showing the palette yet. I do that in all the videos now. :)

Thank you! Cheers! :)

Thank you sir, much appreciated.

Yep, always start from the real world if you can. :)

Yep, it's pretty easy but it's effect is great :) - thanks for watching and commenting.

Happy to help!

I would say overall, they are okay for a few uses (this may be one for the agrax or Fleshsade), but overall, I don't find them very useful.

Yep, same exact color pattern on NMM, it’s more complicated to execute, but totally doable.

@@VinceVenturella You... GOD of mini paint. Please do a tutorial on this please. I beg you. I am but a humble servant, a speck in your shadow.

So we tend to think of metal colors as being that color, but of course, they are not really. What I mean is that, if you think of TMM in NMM terms, Gold is Yellow/Ochre and Steel is Grey/White. This is going to cause some challenges as the steel/silver being white will allow the colors to be true over the top, where as gold is going to change the color of a thin ink/ghost tint. We also have an additional challenge that gold doesn't do what you are talking about in reality. Gold, Bronze, Copper etc. are all rather soft metals, if heated even slightly, they simply melt, they don't score and burn and carbonize like steel. So when we try to create something that doesn't actually match up to reality, people's brains catch that subconsciously. Now, if we still wanted to do it, we could, the answer I would give is this - turn the end of the barrel you are to effect with everything except the chesnut/brown silver. So I would do something like this. 1) Paint gold 2) Do the brown step I outline 3) Glaze on silver over most of the brown, leave a bit of the brown there. 4) glaze a small thin amount of brown over the current brown/silver border 5) Continue on with all colors from there. I think that would give you the best possible result.

Thanks Vince. A lot of good points there. I'll give that a try. Could be relevant to Stormcast armour as that wouldn't melt as readily as real gold since it's an imaginary metal. All the best Nico

Thank you sir! Now you just have to get those greenskinz some guns ;)

So with copper, they can still have the blue and purple and that is very realistic, it just won't really show the brown in the same way.

The brown I think was my primary concern. Thanks Vince!

Sure, inks would be better, they are more transparent and will dull out the metal less, but you could use paints in the same way I use inks here.

@@VinceVenturella thank you!! what kind of inks are they? normal pen inks or?

No, they are different, they are inks for miniature painting or art, here is a good example of what you would want - www.amazon.com/Vallejo-Game-Ink-Paint-Color/dp/B0016CN5MQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Vallejo+game+inks&qid=1558755338&s=gateway&sr=8-1

So it's probably not going to work as well, but general thoughts. Gloss Agrax or regular Seraphim Sepia, Druchii Violet, thin silver glaze, guillman blue glaze, then the pigment is the toughest. We would want either some nuln oil or some VERY light Typhus Corrosion mixed with black paint (very light touch).

I noticed agrax is too dark, Seraphim sepia is much better, straw yellow color.