Couple years ago I purchased one of those awesome Kai-Arts figurines of Estinien from FFXIV, and it was pretty gorgeous when it came, but I couldn’t help but notice that the silver detailing was a bit dull and hard to tell apart from the rest of the armour. So I told my dad, who has a variety of metallic silver paints and offered to let me use them, including the Chromiest of Chrome paints (example) which I ended up using for all the bladed parts. The other silver details I used more normal model-car silver paints. With a black wash to bring out details it looks twice as fantastic as before! Click for larger pictures:

While most of the model has been untouched besides the silver (I didn’t redo the Eye of Sauron Nidhogg, for instance, yet anyway), I desperately needed to redo the faces and hair, because only the eyes had been painted and the flat plastic looked terrible for skin. There was no definition whatsoever… I also tried to do his elbows, but I may have overdone those… Anyway, now you can tell he has a mouth. And a nose. And cheekbones. There was also a molding gap in his hair that we filled in and then painted over. And then my dad took glamour shots in his mini photobooth!