Adam Perfect : MinisUsing a custom kitbash Yndrasta is the best place to try NMM for the first time, right?
Right?
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Getting to the scary bit now: adding highlights for the NMM effect.
Who knows how this is gonna turn out! I’ve chosen such a complex model for a first attempt, but I’ve gone far enough that I’ll give it a good go.
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As somewhat expected, I hit the wall of it looking like I've totally messed the effect up last night.
Not sure whether to push on in the hope/belief it'll all come together in the end, or start again.
Leaning towards starting fresh...
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Erik
NinjaDebuggerYou look like you're in the middle of the process, exactly as you should. It looks like ass, but trust the process. You will get there.
NMM is by far the worst for this sort of thing. You are absolutely going to think you are doing it wrong until you get to the end and the illusion snaps into place. After a few runs through, you'll recognize "this is the right kind of ass to look like at this point."
@NinjaDebugger @erikcats thanks both. This is where I’d got to last night and I’m trying to figure out if it’s the desaturation making it look wrong or that I’ve gone too bright in too large an area (or both, or something else entirely!)
@minis are you aiming for gold or bronze?
@NinjaDebugger gold, sadly. The colour is way off at the moment
@minis relatively easy rescue, depending on how shiny you want it.
If you have a bright yellow-red contrast or speed paint, like Iyanden Yellow contrast, go over it with that right now. Then, you want to work your tones up from there to be brighter, ignoring brown except for your base tone and mixing in yellow and then white.
@minis If you lack contrast/speed paint, instead you want to grab the most transparent yellow you have and go over it with that.
Your big problem is that you started off with a neutral brown and seem to be continuing neutral as you go up in tone, but gold is very warm. You want to start with a warm brown like Terracotta or an Iron Oxide based brown, and then mix in a warm yellow until you hit your mid tone of warm yellow, and THEN mix in white to go the rest of the way.
I use mostly artist acrylics, so my start is even easier, I start from a Zenithal and a base coat of Nickel/Azo Gold, which is basically perfectly made for this purpose.