• Sword colours ie. silver and gold
• Enchanted Colour. I tend to use enchanted blue, but I suppose you could use green or something
• A pale blue or white to lighten previous blue

Step 1

Prime the sword with a black basecoat.

Step 2

Paint the bits that would normally be silver, silver. But instead of drybrushing or anything just give them a flat silver coating of paint.

Step 3

Paint the blade of the sword with watered down blue paint, or blue ink. I don't however know if using inks works as I haven't tried it. Make sure that the blue wash covers the blade of the sword and doesn't start to form puddles.

Step 4

When the blue wash is totally, totally dry, use a paler blue, or a lightened other blue, to do some very fine lines in lots of overlapping X's. You will probably need to use a very fine brush with only a tiny amount of paint on it.

Step 5

In the bottom 1/2 centimetre from the hilt of the sword do a darker wash and blend it into the previous colour. This may need a lot of practice to get looking good.

Step 6

Finish painting the sword. I would normally paint the hilt gold, as it looks more fancy. I also think that the gold and blue go together.

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19-Apr-2004