You requested it Zward, so I want to see some work from you!

For this tutorial you will neeed G'MIC and Selection Bevel python plugin.

http://gmic.sourceforge.net/ and http://registry.gimp.org/node/25199

Create a new document 800x400 and create a darkish background of your choice.
Add a new layer and fill it with Filters/Render/Clouds/Solid Noise.
Use the following values and press New Seed until you have something fairly light.



Open G'MIC/Artistic/Graphic Boost and play with the sliders to get a strong pattern.
Because your clouds will be different to mine, the only tip I can give you is to play especially with the unsharp mask radius and the pencil amplitude.



Create some text using a fairly bold font then right click the text layer and choose alpha to selection.
Make the text layer invisible and highlight the pattern layer then choose select/invert.
Hit the delete key, select/invert again and delete your original text layer.



Run Filters/Distorts/Bevel with the following values.





Make your background invisible and choose image/merge visible layers then make your background visible again.
Duplicate your top layer and run G'MIC/colours/Metallic effect followed by G'MIC/Enhancement/Thin Brush Smoothing with iterations set to 3.
Put the layer into screen mode and adjust the opacity a little until you're happy.
Merge with the middle layer. Select/select none.



Make any levels and sharpness adjustments you want to make then run Filters/Light and shadow/drop shadow unchecking the Allow resizing box. Adjust the opacity of the shadow layer to your preference.



Have fun!

Way cool Erisian. When I finish the metal Wurx series I may have to pass the tutorial torch. Not bad, Dad!

Hey, that's a heck of a compliment and a heck of a responsibility for me. Don't know if I can live up to your well deserved reputation Drac. Thank you.

When I get to hit I will. Got many classes now....;(

I'll pass on that one Drac. This tute got severely buried literally overnight with no interest. I'd just be wasting my time doing any more.

Very cool Erisian. I will do that one for sure.

Don't put yourself down, your work is great.

Don't let it bother you too much. With all the excitement over 2.8, there are a lot of techy posts lately that are not art related. You got 5 comments and last I looked, over a hundred views. My Hull plating tut got only4 comments and 119 views. About the same. No big deal.....if one person got something out of it, it was worth it. Besides, those tuts of ours are always gonna be there for someone searching the Tutorial section for that particular subject matter.

Wow! in this forum are experts in Metal things.
Thank you!

Drac - Thank you very much but my brain works on the basis of experience and I find it impossible to be as objective as you.

Molly - Thanks again but don't do it just to make me happy. It's not going to change my mind - I'm not doing any more tutorials.

Thanks YAFU but I'm no expert - it was all an accident.

Erisian, I do not do tutorials unless it is something I want to learn. Yours is one of them.
I try to do Dracs cuz I like anything shiny, especially metal.
What I like about our tutorials is that there is such a great selection, and what interests one, doesn't necessarily do so with others.
Please don't get discouraged, I have done lots that people didn't do.