How to paint 'gold-tinged green'?

[GunjiNoKanrei]

Currently I am thinking about how to paint a 'gold-tinged green'. Should I use typical NMM gold colors with lots of green for shading? Should I use metallics mixed with green? Heck, what is 'gold-tinged green' anyway?

What would you do?

Thanks for your ideas and help

 

[TrystanGST]

There's a discussion about it over here:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?45697-Help-with-green-armor

But what I would recommend is painting your gold, and then applying a green glaze to get the tint without overriding the gold base.

 

[skraaal]

But what I would recommend is painting your gold, and then applying a green glaze to get the tint without overriding the gold base.

I think TrystanGST hit the nail on the head there, it's what I would do. You could always do the reverse and paint it in green hues and then glaze the gold TMM on top allowing the green to show through in the recesses.

 

[Einion]

Heck, what is 'gold-tinged green' anyway?

I think everyone would imagine that slightly differently.

It could mean merely a yellow-green colour, but I think it's intended to be something that's more than one hue - quite green in the shadows but more yellow or ochre/golden yellow in the highlights.

Einion

 

[GunjiNoKanrei]

But what I would recommend is painting your gold, and then applying a green glaze to get the tint without overriding the gold base.

I think TrystanGST hit the nail on the head there, it's what I would do. You could always do the reverse and paint it in green hues and then glaze the gold TMM on top allowing the green to show through in the recesses.

I know I stated a similar approach in my op, but wouldn't this get me a "green tinged gold" instead of an "gold tinged green"?

It could mean merely a yellow-green colour, but I think it's intended to be something that's more than one hue - quite green in the shadows but more yellow or ochre/golden yellow in the highlights.

Yes, I think this is how I imagine the color. Would you use metallics or opaque paint to achieve this? Right now I am thinking a dark, military green highlighted with and up to an ochre color. Golden metallics might look strange for the highlights, no?

Subject matter is a Battlemech by the way (humanoid Mech, 6mm scale, standing around 35mm in height).

 

[TrystanGST]

That depends on how you glazed it.

If you went heavier in the cracks and lighter on the higher surfaces, then you would have what einion described.

Paint the whole thing gold, add a few drops of green to water, apply in thin coats. Viola, you have gold with a greenish tinge.

 

[Einion]

Would you use metallics or opaque paint to achieve this?

I wouldn't use metallics no, not unless I was trying to depict silk or something similar.

Einion

 

[Thelonius Punk]

How about this: Paint it the green you like, then do a very dry brush gold metalic over it. then you'll have the green with the sparkly.