>>96270887
I usually wet blend an off black with a steel colour for the middle of the transitions, then use a silver for the brighter areas, and a true black for the darkest. You can also just do layering/glazing instead of wet blending, I do that too sometimes. Here's a couple more swords painted like that.

>>96270899
Thanks, I remember seeing that big rat head during its wip stage, the model turned out amazing