 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and this is going to be an unusual one because it's quite product specific, but I'm really excited about this product and I wanted to share with you all the different ways we're going to use it. This is all about Green Stuff World's Pure Pigments Metal Pigment Set. Now I already did a product review on these so that you can find up in the corner there if you want to go check that out. I covered the basics like why I'm putting this together with metal varnish and stuff like that. This is really the video about how to use it. So here we have a little old school horsey, he has a lot of metal armor. I have some mixes of the antique gold, regular gold, bronze and then the copper. Those are all mixed with the pure pigment mixed with the Vallejo Metal Varnish. So we're just going to go ahead and get some of that going and we're just going to give it a nice application. Now one of the reasons I picked this Goofy Old Miniature is because it's both white which is generally terrible for metals and then it has other weird colors on it and I wanted to show you just how fantastic the opacity is of this. This is one smooth coat, goes on like butter like painting with gold flake or something and the sheen on it is just, it's out of this world. So you can see you get a nice smooth application. You have quite a bit in your brush usually. It's quite tough because you've got varnish mixed in with it so you get a really, really shiny surface that's also quite durable and resistant which is great. So this first part is really just base coating. I just want to show you how smooth the application was, how easy it goes on. It's really no problem and all the different colors will work just as well. All of them have about the same amount of coverage so for example here I'm going to use that lustrous wonderful red copper and you'll see that that as well covers all the same. Just some quick notes. Obviously this is metallic, don't lick your brush or anything like that. These pigments are made of real metals so you know that's not good for you but other than that it's so smooth it goes on like a dream and as you can see it covers everything in one quick coat. So enough of that let's get on and do some interesting stuff with this. So the first mixes I made were pretty straightforward. Just that plus the varnish to get a straight gold but I made a couple of the little piles of the pigment here and you can also mix it with other things. So here I've got some Scale Color Ink Tense Chestnut. I could also use Dollar Rowney inks or Vallejo inks or anything like that and all of those would work just fine. Now I'm using quite a lot of ink here. I got a little drip in my other pool like a dum-dum but that's okay we'll fix that later. And at first when you're mixing it it's looking like okay but it's the same gold but just wait. As I continue to mix it you're going to see that ink take over and fully mix in there and what you get is this really nice deep brown gold. Now I made this really extreme. The advantage here is it will be quite thin but it's still got the metal pigment in it. You could do this with any color ink. I'm doing it with brown because I'm going to show you as a shade on the existing armor but you could if you wanted a really lustrous red gold. Great just mix some red ink right in. As we'll see later you can also paint right over the top. But this is a great way to get your shade color for your metals because it's naturally quite thin because you have such a high amount of ink in it and it's got the same color gold in it so it's going to blend right into the miniature itself. So if we grab our little horsey back here after I try to wipe that away and fail horribly it doesn't matter I fix it in between the next shot. You're going to see how you can just easily get some nice shadows or tones or variation on there without any kind of issue. So we're just going to lay that shadow right in there nice and smooth and just like we basically applying our normal tactics of painting metallics in a non-metallic style and you can get really soft easy subtle shades worked in there to play with the tones of the metal. And it just takes that so well see how that provides that nice additional deep color. Mixing in inks with the pigment really gives you because you can just keep applying the inks you can do a little less a little more crank up the intensity. It just really makes for a wonderful way to work with metallics and to increase your contrast of value on something that's already quite reflective but brings the light back under control. All right so now we made a shade let's go the opposite direction. I've still got my other little area of pigment didn't mix with the brown clearly. Now I'm going to take some Vallejo acrylic metal color silver that's right a different metal paint a silver metal paint. The magic of these pigments is that remember they're going to mix with anything that's got acrylic medium or alcohol for that matter quite easily because it's just pigment. And here what I'm going to get is a nice thin ultra bright silver highlight. So you can actually mix in your brighter color metals add a little bit of this into the pigment and you get a hyper hyper reflective gold. So if you've ever felt like highlighting your gold is challenging because a little bit too much turns it to silver. This is an easy solution. If you drop silver into your into with some gold pigment and boom you've got a perfect silver highlight. Okay you'll notice with all these I do mix them extensively that's intentional. You do want to make sure that pigment is completely mixed into whatever you're working on. So with that done let's go ahead and get that onto our horsey. So now we're just going to reinforce those highlights basically right where the light area is hitting so we get a nice clean bright reflection. And yet again you can see just how easy it is to work with like I turn the brush sideways to hit the edge of that and it just hit the edge perfectly. These are just so simple to work with when they're thinned down like this because you can control the pigment amount versus these other paints you don't lose your opacity or your coverage. It's really nice. You can mix it back in create a half step if you want to bring it you know again smooth it back in mix it in with the other colors whatever you need to do very very easy to work with. Alright so I put some paint on the rest of the horse just so we can you can kind of see what it looks like. It's so lustrous like look at how wonderful that looks you know when you don't have just a bunch of other white distracting your eyes. We don't have to stop there so here I've grabbed some Blood Angels red contrast paint but you could also use Tamiya X27 clear you could use again normal inks any kind of highly transparent thing like contrast paints ghost tents dollar roundy inks Tamiya clears whatever. This goes over this so wonderfully well if you love the idea of sort of metallic sheen Blood Angels or sort of the 30 K style of vehicles where they have that red over the sheen this gold is so wonderful to work with that kind of a technique because it's got such a high luster that it really shines through and here I'm using the contrast paint straight normally I would thin it down if I was going to do this but and I would recommend you actually do thin it down a little bit if you're trying to do this technique but I wanted to just display to you how strong and shiny the luster of this this gold is even through that red absolutely wonderful so in any way you'd want to use this this true metallic paint the key is you can mix it with varnish to get it straight you can mix it with inks to change its color or or contrast paints or anything like that to change its color to create shadows for your existing color or simply to do colored metallics you can also mix it with silvers if you want to create really shiny bright versions of it and of course you can paint over it easy enough if you want to have that kind of a sheen over all of your colored sort of metallic where you've got a bright color reflecting highly through something else over top but any kind of ink will work you could put you know like I've got here these Vallejo inks you can use that straight over the top you could do the coloration through an airbrush as a glaze you've got options so there you go give it a like if you liked it subscribe for additional hobby cheating in the future if you've got questions drop them down below but as always thank you for watching we'll see you next time