For me the bottom shield looks like a shield with a picture painted on the front, not a shield polished to mirror finish with a reflection.

The top one looks like it's been painted gunmetal and highlighted silver ... in which case the painter might as well have used gunmetal and silver IMHO.

For me making a thing more complicated isn't an improvement but, hey ho, whatever floats your boat ...

Must be a popular method in the US then, where the dictum seems to be 'why use one word when two or three will do.' My latest beef is 'Luke Cage' where they insist on calling one of the characters madame council woman, where in this country she would simply be referred to as councillor.

... and just to prove how fickle I am, I do think the technique can work on figures like this where the fact that the paint job doesn't quite look like metal is a bonus because the material being modelled is supposed to be adamantium, plasteel, ceramite or whatever fictional material the fluff specifies.

 

Quote from: Luddite on 11 October 2016, 08:07:47 AM
Done well it can look good:

I feel inclined to show the finished work bacause that  model loks great!

Is it possible to do non-metallic painting with metallics? Prehapes micro dots of bronze, copper, and gold to do the madder-red coat of English foot in the later Eighteenth century? 

Quote from: Leman on 11 October 2016, 02:35:40 PM
Must be a popular method in the US then, where the dictum seems to be 'why use one word when two or three will do.' My latest beef is 'Luke Cage' where they insist on calling one of the characters madame council woman, where in this country she would simply be referred to as councillor.

Elevator instead of lift was itself a compromise; the original plan was to call it a vertical personnel distribution device.

I'm a great believer in clarity over brevity, Guy, like calling a spade a Single Person Activated Dirt Excavator.

Sorry but a spade is a "fu**ing  shovel"

IanS

Quote from: ianrs54 on 12 October 2016, 06:26:21 AM
a "fu**ing  shovel"

IanS

Interesting application.

Suggestion of necrophilia, you mean?

A spade and a shovel are two distinct tools.  One id uses for digging and cutting the other is used  for moving material.

They have similar but distinct differences in construction and use.

Unlike an Orc and a Goblin. One is a member of an imaginary race of human-like creatures, characterized as, warlike, and malevolent. they other is what you hope to get in the bedroom  ...... (think about it)

Spade
a tool with a sharp-edged, typically rectangular, metal blade and a long handle, used for digging or cutting earth, sand, turf, etc



Shovel
a tool resembling a spade with a broad blade and typically upturned sides, used for moving coal, earth, snow, or other material.


PS. Both of the above pictures are in proper metallics

My rabbit shovel doesn't look like those, at all, Mark.

(Best 'digging' implement I've got.....By far !)

Cheers - Phil

A Rabbit shovel is more like a trowel with a broomstick handle

True, but I find it so much easier to use than a bigger, conventional spade, Mark.
Takes longer.....But it feels like far less effort is involved.

Cheers - Phil