Droid painting ideas?

[KommanderKeldoth 3,141]

Im about to start in on painting my CIS droids. I know that Im going to use Sorastro's contrast paint guide for the B1's

My question is how are ya'll doing Grievious and Droidekas? They have a ton of littke crevices and hard to reach spots.

Im either going to:

A) spray with Leadbelcher as a base, wash with nuln oil, and then paint on details like Grievious' armor and the Droideka's "bronze" plates 

Or

B) spray them black and then drybrush a mixed metallic paint before doing other coloured details.  Seems like it could take longer but maybe yield better looking results.

[Gullwind 560]

I primed my Grievous  with Amry Painter Skeleton Bone, then did all the mechanical parts in Vallejo Gunmetal. A drybrush of silver and some dark red and yellow on the eyes and he turned out pretty good. 

[54NCH32 1,613]

For destroyers, I just did leadblecher, spray, gore grunta contrast (first time i used it, but perfect for coloured metal), then washed it with a 50/50 nuln oil / lahmian medium. Super quick and looks pretty good

[manoftomorrow010 1,119]

My Grievous I primed with Wraith Bone, then did all the mechanical parts German Grey+Gunmetal Grey, then did a mix of Tan Earth + Deck Tan for his armored bits.

 

[GreatMazinkaiser 1,335]

Grievous was Apothecary White and Gryph-Charger Grey over Heirloom White to mirror his Clone Wars appearance (despite being much tinier).

[Ralgon 1,005]

Easy as droideka that look almost movie accurate

Base Spray leadbelcher, then nuln oil/ bassillicum grey wash. Paint the armor warplock bronze, then coat those sections  with fleshtears red. Highlight to taste

[OuterPop 208]

For the Droidekas, I used a color-shift metallic paint from GreenStuffWorld called Nebulae Copper.  It color shifts from a reddish/brown/orange in the highlight to a purple in the shadow.  It does a great job of recreating that oily copper/purple shift on the edges of the outer skin.