A chrome knight

[tahra]

They look great!

[Wolf Knight]

Glad you liked them, guys 

Are you going to produce a whole army of them?

Nope, maybe a few more with different armour, helms and weapons for display, or for diorama deco.

[conniefrere]

They look magnificient!

It reminds me btw I have to try something simillar, applying a very thin layer of silver or aluminium.

[Hadoque]

Splendid! 

Too bad about the marks on the 1st one, but one can't (learn to) make an omelet without breaking eggs 

[tonguello]

Panos you could use the marks to make them look like rust! 
you can use the dry brush technique. it's very simple. in a hard hair brush take some rust color paint (no water). clean the brush on a paper cloth till it is almost clean. then pass the brush very softly on the marks. the relieved marks will get the little paint the brush has and the rest will still look chromed. 

[Wolf Knight]

Thank you Jan and Erwin!

Gaston, that is a great idea!!! I'll give it a try when I am able to 

[Tiermann]

Those look great. I don' know why I hadn't considered doing this myself. I've painted parts silver before for my Snow Queen diorama. I use a silver spray paint and it dries in a few hours. For small parts I attach the part to a stick with glue or green tacky stuff.

[Justindo]

Nice work on these, Panos!

[Rasputin]

nice chromed knights Panos, they look great. You can see how you learned quite a lot when you compare the two and you seem to have learned fast, the second one looks very good. Did you do one big coat and let it stand for 7 days or did you do many thin coats and let some time in between?

I like your idea of haveing diffrent armor for a museum. The origonal chromed knight was only one style. Geobra released a few chromed featured knights but never the whole thing including the face.

Have you compared your paint next to a factory chromed knight? I was wondering if you could paint only the parts that were missing and blend them in. The chrome plating Geobra uses is so nice looking but limited.

[Wolf Knight]

Thank you Tim, Justin, Ras! Although I first experimented with Nuremberg chrome armour back in 2010: http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=4522.0 (unfortunately the pics are not visible any more for some reason  I'll try uploading them again...) I believe Gaston has made a much better work with his statues last year: http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=7070.msg116382#msg116382


Anyways, to answer Rasputin's questions, I sprayed one thick layer of paint and let it be for seven days. It would be much better if I sprayed several thin layers within a day, but I wanted to conduct my experiment as quickly as I could. I knew problems like paint drying too late and fingertip marks would be a result if I did not let it dry for too long, from chroming the Nuremberg armour back in 2010. But I was anxious to finish. Moreover, I think I was not in the mood to have my mind on spraying several layers within the day, thus the single thick one, to get on with it as soon as possible. As for which of the two is more shiny ( you can laugh now guys  ) i recall the original playmobil paint was a more shiny one than the spray paint I use.