TMM Airbrush: Obsidian Black

Vallejo presents True Metallic Meta (TMM)l, a palette designed to provide control, consistency and spectacular results through simple, effective techniques for painting metallic surfaces on miniatures. The palette covers the entire colour spectrum with metallic colours and is divided into 20 colour families. Each family comprises four sub-ranges that harmonise perfectly:
- BASE: Main metallic colour.
- LIGHT: Metallic highlight.
- SHADE: Non-metallic satin glaze shade.
- AIRBRUSH: Metallic base for airbrush application.
Each colour family functions as a self-contained colour unit, but is also designed in such a way that combinations and mixtures between the families are possible.
This allows colour gradients, cross-reflections or temperature variations to be created without losing visual coherence. The True Metallic Metal (TMM) technique aims to depict realistic metallic surfaces with metallic colours instead of simulating metal with flat colours, as with Non-Metallic Metal (NMM).
TMM allows painters to achieve natural reflections and a visually stunning finish with less painterly artificiality, preserving the material diversity of metal in miniature.
To master this technique, the use of a metallic colour alone is not enough. TMM requires the application of the classic light and shadow principles of volume modelling as well as working with gradients, transitions and contrasts, just as with any other non-metallic finish. For years, painters have searched for a way to achieve realistic metallic finishes with lustre, depth and control over light reflection. True Metallic Metal (TMM) is Vallejo's answer to this quest.