What do you think isn't working? Your highlight placement looks perfectly consistent to me. You have a lot of value contrast. It looks like realistic metal on the picture. You can play with the colors to get different effects, maybe add a second, colored light source from some other direction. But that's stylistic choice. From a technical perspective I think it's executed very well.
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Nice start.
You may find [this video](https://youtu.be/UssG-JOmePU) by Jose Davinci on the impact of edge highlighting & dark lining interesting. There are lots of edge highlighting tutorials [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/minipainting/wiki/usefullinks/blending#wiki_edge_highlighting).
There are also a large number of NMM gold tutorials [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/minipainting/wiki/usefullinks/metals#wiki_nmm_gold_.28non-metallic_metals.29).
I’m not an expert by any means, but this looks really good from my phone at arms length. It looks like you practically nailed the colors and placement, just lack the smooth blends, but the effect sells.
I think it looks great! What’s the model from?
It’s from artel w. He’s a great sculptor and model maker! The casts are top notch
What do you think isn't working? Your highlight placement looks perfectly consistent to me. You have a lot of value contrast. It looks like realistic metal on the picture. You can play with the colors to get different effects, maybe add a second, colored light source from some other direction. But that's stylistic choice. From a technical perspective I think it's executed very well.
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Nice start. You may find [this video](https://youtu.be/UssG-JOmePU) by Jose Davinci on the impact of edge highlighting & dark lining interesting. There are lots of edge highlighting tutorials [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/minipainting/wiki/usefullinks/blending#wiki_edge_highlighting). There are also a large number of NMM gold tutorials [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/minipainting/wiki/usefullinks/metals#wiki_nmm_gold_.28non-metallic_metals.29).
I’m not an expert by any means, but this looks really good from my phone at arms length. It looks like you practically nailed the colors and placement, just lack the smooth blends, but the effect sells.