Non-metalic metal and Blood in snow effects

Hey I have just finished a cool objective marker testing out the non-metallic metal idea it turned out surprisingly better than I thought. here is the tutorial I used
http://www.one-ring.co.uk/phpBB2/kb.php?mode=article&k=474
it was pretty useful exept at the end to get the metalic effect I gave it a light wash of badab black for silver and devland mud for gold.

Also in this model I tried to give the effect that Elendil was bleeding in snow the Gale force nine snow powder is pretty absorbent so I used a lot of wash to give it the dark red effect.