My Paint Recipes...

Gold NMM (all paints are Pro Acryl)

Coal Black
Mahogany
Burnt Orange
Golden Brown (could swap out Yellow Ochre)
Pale Yellow
Bold Titanium White

1. Base coat with Mahogany.
2. Paint everything except deepest shadows with 1:1 mix of Mahogany + Burnt Orange (layer consistency).
3. Sketch in broadest highlight areas with 1:1 mix of Burnt Orange + Golden Brown (layer consistency). Use stippling & hatching at extreme ends of larger areas where it meets the midtones. Use glazing to smooth over the stippling & hatching. Not looking for perfectly smooth, maybe just 1-2 coats of glazing.
4. Continue painting highlight areas going smaller & smaller through:
 - Golden Brown
 - 1:1 mix of Golden Brown + Pale Yellow
 - Pale Yellow
 - Bold Titanium White (only for extreme dot highlights)

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This is where I'd previously use filter coats of Warm Yellow or Golden Yellow, but I'm trying to work more towards an orangish bronze color rather than a really yellowish gold. So, what's going to follow is slightly slightly different from what I've done in the past and I am just about to start this part now.
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5. 1-3 filter coats of Burnt Orange over everything. Will decide how many coats to use as I progress, judging after each coat has dried if it's where I want or not.
6. Reclaim deepest shadows / recess shading with 1:1 mix of Coal Black + Mahogany. 
7. Reclaim brightest highlights first with Pale Yellow and then coming back for most extreme highlights with Bold Titanium White.



Blue NMM (all paints are Pro Acryl)

This is specifically a BLUE NMM. I do have another recipe for a bluish steel, but it's not as saturated and "pretty" as this blue NMM.

Also, don't ask me why, but my process for blue NMM is different than my gold in as far as the order I work from shadows, midtones, to highlights .

Coal Black
Blue Black
Blue
Sky Blue
White Blue
Bright Ivory
Bold Titanium White

1. Base coat with Blue Black.
2. Sketch in broadest highlight areas with Sky Blue (layer consistency). Stippling & hatching where the highlights meet the shadows / midtones.
3. Glaze Blue Black from the highlights back into the shadows (1-3 coats).
4. Glaze Sky Blue from the shadows back into the highlights (1-3 coats).
5. Start to paint brighter highlights with White Blue (layer consistency).
6. Paint brightest highlights with Bright Ivory (layer consistency).
7. 1-3 filter coats of Blue over all the highlights & midtones.
8. Reclaim deepest shadows / recess shading with Coal Black.
9. Reclaim brightest highlights with White Blue and then coming back for the most extreme highlights with Bright Ivory.

For the OG Orgoth Reaver Commander, I came back the next day & glazed 1 coat of Blue from shadows to midtones & highlights to midtones while making sure not to cover the highlights at all. I've found that I tend to go too heavy with the darkest shadows in my NMM & need to do a little something like that to get at least a little bit of midtones showing.



New Blue Steel Test Recipe

1. Base coat with 1:1 mix of Dark Gray Blue + Gray Blue. ***

1. Base coat with Faded Ultramarine.
2. BIG highlight areas with Dark Ivory.
3. Glaze 1 to smooth transition between 1 & 2.
4. Glaze 2 to smooth transition between 1 & 2 and reclaim highlight areas.
5. Glaze shadows with Dark Jade. Panel line with Dark Jade.
6. Glaze even finer shadows with Coal Black.
7. Finer highlights with White Blue.
8. Absolute highlights & edge highlights with Bold Titanium White.

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Empyrean 3 Paint Experiment


Dark Plum
Tan Flesh
Yellow Green
Coal Black
Bold Titanium White

Gold
A - base coat 1:1 mix of Dark Plum + Coal Black
B - 1:1 mix of Tan Flesh + Yellow Green BIG highlights
C - Glaze A & B into each other
D - 2:1 mix of Tan Flesh + Yellow Green
E - Add white to D
F - Add more white to E
G - White

Purple
A - 1:1 mix of White + Dark Plum
B - Layer shadows with Dark Plum
C - Glaze A & B into each other
D - 2:1 mix of White + Dark Plum edge highlights

Warm White
A -1:1:1 mix Coal Black + Bold Titanium White + Tan Flesh
B - Add more Tan Flesh + White
C - Add more White
D - White

Black
A - Coal Black
B - Edge highlight with 1:1:1 mix of Coal Black + Bold Titanium White + Yellow Green


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