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What is your recipe to get some nice wood or metal effects when painting with oils?

Hi,
Here is my method for wood: I'm painting the wood with 110 humbrol natural wood then I'm waiting for 3 days to give it a wash with raw umber oil..

If I have a pure shiny metal, like chainmail or armor of a soldier I'm painting it with silver and then drybrushing it with several silver tones darkened with black..
If it is a gun barrel I'm using humbrol 53..
If the metal is a non working iron you need to give the rust effect, I'm using pastel chalks for it..

Meaning oil should not be used?
or do you never use oils?

Sorry,
I meant I'm using oils just for weathering.. And mostly on wood weathering.. For metal effects enamels are enough for me..

Hi,
Ditto on the wood, but for metalwork I tend to undercoat with a black acrylic and once it is dry I use the following mixture to help with the metalic surface.
Take a blob of Burnt Umber oil paint and then dig some of the thick silver pigment from the bottom of a tin of Humbrol Silver. Then mix a little of the silver pigment with the oil paint and use it to drybrush your metalwork. By varying the amount of silver offers different types of metal and avoids what can be a false look if metallic paint is used on its own. It can look good on weapons too, but in all instances be subtle. practice on some spare bits.
Other paints for metal are from Citadel, they do bolt gun metal and chain mail, Humbrol Metalcote is good as are some of the traditional extracolour paints, for instance oily steel.

I hope this helps you.

John