Objects of the present invention include providing composite metallic thin filmy particles for conductive inks and a conductive ink, both allowing the production of highly conductive substrates with simpler equipment and at a lower cost, providing a method for making such a conductive substrate, and providing such a conductive substrate.The present invention includes Step 1 for coating a surface of a base material sheet with a composite metallic thin film layer that contains at least one of a resin layer and a wax layer and at least one of a metal layer and a metal compound layer and Step 2 for removing the composite metallic thin film layer from the sheet. The resultant composite metallic thin filmy particles and conductive ink can be used in a conductive substrate producing apparatus, formed into a pattern on the conductive substrate by screen printing, an ink jet method, or some other liquid-based process.