painting gold (well)
- Thread starter Wootton
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I say... start with chaos black + snakebite leather as a base coat... highlight with some snakebite leather.. when you are almost at pure snake bite, you start adding some yellow... golden yellow will do fine 
then after some layer of highlighting that, you start adding some skull white to the mix those are the colours I use ^^
hope that helps
// Larre
then after some layer of highlighting that, you start adding some skull white to the mix those are the colours I use ^^hope that helps
// Larre
Washes
Any metallics - washes are your friend
For gold, browns and oranges are your best bets (I use rust brown (an old GW wash), Brown wash, or flesh wash) depending on how I want the colour to end up.
Also, depending how deep and rich you want your colour to be, u can use several layers of metallics.
For a nice bronzey-gold try this one:
Black base, go over with tin bitz.
Then a more gentle covering of dwarven bronze then wash all over with brown.
Once dry, apply another lighter drybrushing of dwarven bronze. Wash again.
Then start with a very light brushing of burnished gold, and a slightly watered down wash.
Burnished gold again, as lightly as possible now. Pick out details with shining gold.
Any metallics - washes are your friend
For gold, browns and oranges are your best bets (I use rust brown (an old GW wash), Brown wash, or flesh wash) depending on how I want the colour to end up.
Also, depending how deep and rich you want your colour to be, u can use several layers of metallics.
For a nice bronzey-gold try this one:
Black base, go over with tin bitz.
Then a more gentle covering of dwarven bronze then wash all over with brown.
Once dry, apply another lighter drybrushing of dwarven bronze. Wash again.
Then start with a very light brushing of burnished gold, and a slightly watered down wash.
Burnished gold again, as lightly as possible now. Pick out details with shining gold.
DaN\'s right.
I\'d go with a bronze color and then shining gold drybrushed over it.
if you want a shinier metal, do it in straight shining gold, then hit it with burnished, and maybe even hit the corners with a spot or two of mithril silver.
go over this with a wash...
flesh wash for an older look, brown ink for a darker one, and chestnut ink for a richer look.
when using the metallics and not drybrushing, you\'ll need to water them down, as they can get clumpy.
furthermore, water down the inks a good 1:1 water to ink ratio, at least. you can go over it again once it\'s dry if it\'s not enough color.
once you get the whole thing of base-color, then color over, then highlights, you can easily do NMM gold, as it\'s not too hard (just layer from snakebite leather to skull white through the yellow-browns).
Good luck, and cheers!
I\'d go with a bronze color and then shining gold drybrushed over it.
if you want a shinier metal, do it in straight shining gold, then hit it with burnished, and maybe even hit the corners with a spot or two of mithril silver.
go over this with a wash...
flesh wash for an older look, brown ink for a darker one, and chestnut ink for a richer look.
when using the metallics and not drybrushing, you\'ll need to water them down, as they can get clumpy.
furthermore, water down the inks a good 1:1 water to ink ratio, at least. you can go over it again once it\'s dry if it\'s not enough color.
once you get the whole thing of base-color, then color over, then highlights, you can easily do NMM gold, as it\'s not too hard (just layer from snakebite leather to skull white through the yellow-browns).
Good luck, and cheers!
Sigur
New member
Those guys are right. The most important thing when working with metallic Gold is that you can\'t paint it over a normal, matte colour (at least I haven\'t encountered a metallic gold by any company that would cover good enough).
Personally, I like to use Vallejo brassy brass over black basecoat and then several layers of slightly thinned-down gold (Citadel Burnished Gold) followed by a fitting wash depending on what you want it to look like; I\'m going for either flesh wash or chestnut ink for most of the time a followed by some touch-ups with Burnished Gold and finishing highlights using Citadel\'s Mithril colour.
Personally, I like to use Vallejo brassy brass over black basecoat and then several layers of slightly thinned-down gold (Citadel Burnished Gold) followed by a fitting wash depending on what you want it to look like; I\'m going for either flesh wash or chestnut ink for most of the time a followed by some touch-ups with Burnished Gold and finishing highlights using Citadel\'s Mithril colour.
Also i find most people don\'t bother watering down there metallic\'s which can be a mistake as they are generaly more \"lumpy\" and thick than normal paint so there is the danger of that when it dries. Also Always start dark and work in layers just like any other paint. One coat of gold washed and highlighted can look fine on rank and file but if your looking for that character level finish then you want to put more effort in
demonherald
New member
Agreed there Purple adds a certain richness to the gold only the slightest hint of it is needed...magenta works quie well as well....
I like to start with a mid tone usually 2-1 shining gold - chainmail then shade down with thin glazes of a glaze mix of 2-1 brown and purple ink with about 3 parts clean water and a spot of black paint..quick and fairly effective...
I like to start with a mid tone usually 2-1 shining gold - chainmail then shade down with thin glazes of a glaze mix of 2-1 brown and purple ink with about 3 parts clean water and a spot of black paint..quick and fairly effective...
I agree with everything said so far. One thing i can throw your way, that i find easy for with a clean result. If you are comfortable working with silver metalics, you can basically paint silver as normal then use alternating brown, yellow, and flesh ink washes to get to the depth and richness you want. A little fiddly with the multiple ink washes, but works well for those still struggling with thier blending. As stated, keep those metalics thin! Good luck!
