Metallic (silver) eyes, yay or nay?

[Okuma]

Hey guys, I' new to nids and getting some models and paint in a new location I've moved to after a 10 year break from WH40k

So an idea I had was to paint the eyes of my nids silver. I feel like I've maybe seen this in movies/TV, but I can't find any pics of this online. Have you guys seen this before?

I kinda wanted to see pics before buying silver paint for nothing but eyes (yeah that bottle will last till the end of the earth), since nothing else in a nid army could even be painted silver.

I was hoping it would give it a creepy "alien" feeling.
The rest of the color scheme is red chitin, green "soft skin"/innards, black carapace with dark brown -> yellow feathering.


Thanks for any help/suggestion/advice/pics/comments

[mattblowers]

I'm not sure it could work unless you are a balling painter with a mega-steady hand. Even then, I'm not sure the paints we have available to do it would get the effect you are looking for. Try it out on a gaunt and let us know.

[Kyokii]

I'm assuming a solid metallic color over the eye, looking like a beetle shell or fly's eye from a distance?
I'd imagine a gunmetal tone highlighted with a silver would work pretty well. would be veeeery fiddly. probably just silver for gribblies.

[bloodtyrant]

Try checking out your local art store for a silver fine liner pens to do your eyes if that is all you are using silver for

As for your paint scheme I'd say the black head plates will contrast well with a silver eye and as long as you apply a wash on the eye sockets pretty sure any skin colour will do

[Okuma]

Hey guys thanks for your input

Matt:
I don't think I need to be a very good painter for this. I want to just make a "full silver" type of eye, like in the below pic "pearl (full)"



I would try it out if I had silver paint, I'd need to go buy it to try it. I know I'm being unreasonably stingy on this, I just don't want an unused silver paint pot sitting with my paints staring at my telling me it was a stupid idea.

Kyokii:
The gunmetal idea is crazy! But maybe it's just crazy enough to work!

Bloodtyrant:
Yeah I was thinking the same with the black wash in the socket, it could look great


But has anybody seen anything like this before on any model?
Am I really a unique snowflake, despite what Tyler Durden said?

[blackrainbow]

Independence Day aliens had silvery eyes if I recall correctly. I just broke a gaunt, I'll do it up tonight with your eyes and post that tomorrow.

[Okuma]

Feb 6, 2016 2:50:07 GMT blackrainbow said:

Independence Day aliens had silvery eyes if I recall correctly. I just broke a gaunt, I'll do it up tonight with your eyes and post that tomorrow.

Oh thanks a lot for that man! I really appreciate that, look forward to seeing if it's as cool as in my mind

[blackrainbow]

Paint drying now. I'll pic it in the morning with natural/better light. It's just a lil' gaunt, but hope it helps.

[blackrainbow]

My apologies, I can't get a decent picture with my phone - everything needs color correcting. I hope you can see it well enough.

[Remalis]

+1 on using silver paint pen. There is a type with a long steel nib, almost hypodermic needle like. Perfect for this kind of fine work. Friend used a black one for his Eldar, hand drawing runes and edging. Worked perfectly.

[blackrainbow]

No pen, that's good old fashion boltgun metal (and then when dry more brown around to clean it up - my hands aren't that steady). I found an old camera, it's on the charger now so I should be able to actually get some decent shots up soon.

[Okuma]

Feb 8, 2016 1:07:47 GMT blackrainbow said:

No pen, that's good old fashion boltgun metal (and then when dry more brown around to clean it up - my hands aren't that steady). I found an old camera, it's on the charger now so I should be able to actually get some decent shots up soon.

Hey thanks a lot for this blackrainbow , this looks very cool and alien. It might even pop out a bit more with my red chitin color scheme.

The verdict is in I believe, it's a YEA!

Time to order some silver paint


Bonus trivia: turns out it should be "yea or nay" according to the Cambridge online dictionary, not "yay or nay"

[blackrainbow]

I think it will look pretty good for you, especially with a bold red. Yea for silver eyes!