How to Airbrush Metallics | Painting a Necron 40k Model

In this video, I show you how I airbrush metallic paints on my miniatures. The McFarlane Necron Flayed One is a HUGE miniature and perfect example of why airbrushing is useful.
You can thin any regular hobby acrylic metallic paint for airbrushing, e.g., Citadel Leadbelcher. I almost always use water and I aim for a consistency of skim milk. Of course, for more realistic metal surface effects, I also use a variety of washes, shades, and weathering techniques. Here, I use a series of black inks and rust-colored paints sprayed through an airbrush to do this. You can use a regular brush, too, for any of the methods I show in the video.
As a bonus, I also go through my basic workflow for painting object source lighting (OSL) to paint the glowing eye effect.
I hope you enjoy this! Leave a comment and let me know what you think?
Here are the Supplies and Paints I Used:
McFarlane Necron Flayed One Toy Figure: amzn.to/3QdW5Pb
Citadel Leadbelcher Metallic Paint: amzn.to/47dLcUG
Citadel Washes: amzn.to/45FDxwY and amzn.to/46FEk2r
Vallejo Surface Primer (my favorite): amzn.to/3jv03V0
Badger Patriot 105 Airbrush: amzn.to/3QhNxqr
Air Compressor: amzn.to/3skhBK6
Water Squirt Bottle: amzn.to/45QnH2D
Airbrush Spray booth: amzn.to/47b2b9Q
Inexpensive Hair Dryer: amzn.to/3U5lufq
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Green Stuff World Dipping Ink: amzn.to/3QBmuI8
Vallejo Game Color Dry Rust Paint: amzn.to/3FCL2KM
Other Accessories for Filming/Photography:
Lume Cube Mobile Creator Kit 2.0: shrsl.com/48ilb
Redgrass R9 Desk Lamp: www.redgrasscreative.com/?ref=40
Neatfi XL Task Lamp: amzn.to/3Q4LAxM
Check out the blog for other useful tutorials and tips:
My Badger Patriot 105 Airbrush: tangibleday.com/badger-patrio...
Favorite 7 Metallic Paints for Miniatures (and Why): tangibleday.com/5-best-metall...
Complete Airbrush Guide: tangibleday.com/complete-guid...
Favorite 7 washes for painting miniatures: tangibleday.com/top-7-best-wa...
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[@dracosummoner]

Beautiful result and super easy and succinct to follow. My "airbrush" Army Painter metallics instantly clogged, and the metallic acrylic inks I'd bought did the same (I generally have very good results from Liquitex), so I'll try this again with a few more layers of thinner. Thank you so much.

[@tangibleday]

Awesome. You're welcome :D

[@alexanderfoust6127]

Love the work!!!

[@tangibleday]

Thank you as alwAYS!

[@fixit9844]

ive found vallejo game color silver is great for the airbrush, it's not too thick, out the bottle, and i LOVE the finish, i used it for my alpha legion army for the horus heresy

[@tangibleday]

Ah, yes, the model air metallics? Those are lovely. I have several pots of leadbelcher leftover from a huge commission project I did a few years ago. So, I figured it'd be nice to make a video showing how I'm use them with the airbrush. But, def, if I had to do it all over again, model air metallics ftw! Thanks for the comment!!!