Ideas on Realistic Mica Material?

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I wouldn’t say it doesn’t look anything like the sample, but I tried to find some more reference and it’s really hard to really get a sense of the material from images online. Iirc mica has a bit of “pearlescence” to it, doesn’t it? I wonder if it’d help to look at the nodes presented here and maybe add a touch of that to your shader?

cycles pearl material help

i’m trying to make a watch and i’m finish modeling, but i’m stuck on the pearl matherial, how does all of it is white but when looked in an direct angle to the pearl, there are multiple colours? and there’s a meaty colour hue on it, i tried using the light path node, with a colour ramp, but it doesn’t work the material is something like the shell of this: [image] and with the hue of http://diamonds-n-dust.com/uploads/pearl.gif

It also looks like the cutouts have a distinct whiteness in your photo - perhaps add something to enhance the edges, like this: Worn edges material with Cycles (2.74) - how ? - #2 by IkariShinji