Shading or painting \"golden\" colors ?
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generulpoleaxe
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you can highlight and shade any colour.
Is this a metallic or NON-Metallic question?
I know you mentioned shining gold, which makes me think metallics, but I\'m not sure...
If you want to build up depth with metallics, you could try experimenting with building over different shades like you would when highlighting normally...
Ie. Tin bitz, dwarven bronze, Burnished gold, shining gold, mithril silver...
Is that what you mean?
I know you mentioned shining gold, which makes me think metallics, but I\'m not sure...
If you want to build up depth with metallics, you could try experimenting with building over different shades like you would when highlighting normally...
Ie. Tin bitz, dwarven bronze, Burnished gold, shining gold, mithril silver...
Is that what you mean?
Aliengod3
Active member
If you are paint metallic gold then you can shade it with brown, green, a little black, etc. Try searching \"tarnished gold\" online and see what colors show up on the metal.
When I paint metallic gold I use either dwarf bronze or brazen brass as a base. Shade with brown, dark green, and black. Highlight with shining gold and then shining gold mixed with a little mithril silver.
If you are talking about NMM you can use vallejo goldbrown and highlight to white and your done.
I asked Razza about how he painted his NMM gold and this is what he said \"gold was- *snakebite *shade terracotta *shade black *highlight snakebite + bleached bone *bleached bone *white *yellow glaze\". His gold is incredibly good so you might want to give it a whirl.
When I paint metallic gold I use either dwarf bronze or brazen brass as a base. Shade with brown, dark green, and black. Highlight with shining gold and then shining gold mixed with a little mithril silver.
If you are talking about NMM you can use vallejo goldbrown and highlight to white and your done.
I asked Razza about how he painted his NMM gold and this is what he said \"gold was- *snakebite *shade terracotta *shade black *highlight snakebite + bleached bone *bleached bone *white *yellow glaze\". His gold is incredibly good so you might want to give it a whirl.
I looked through a few of the models, and the painting is good, but imho there is no final highlight to me. the dark angels for example the bleached bone looks good but doesn\'t seem to have a lighter highlight. Though the pics dont really show much gold that you have done.
Nice painting though
Nice painting though
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Cleezy, first thanx for the compliment.
(also take a look at my wife ...
http://www.coolminiornot.com/artist/jenninbenni
She\'s allways fine about any comments for her minis.)
Back to the final highlight thing. I have no idea how to do this (till now).
Any Idea how to do? (Where and how with which colour?)
I usually paint an inverted \"u\" on the shoulderplate with 2:1 Skullwhite-Bleachted Bone
You\'re right. Till now i painted not that much metall stuff. I add a imperial mechanicus.
http://www.coolminiornot.com/188058
Da Matze.
There I tried shading with metal. But I think it wasn\'t that good.
Cleezy, first thanx for the compliment.
(also take a look at my wife ...
http://www.coolminiornot.com/artist/jenninbenni
She\'s allways fine about any comments for her minis.)
Back to the final highlight thing. I have no idea how to do this (till now).
Any Idea how to do? (Where and how with which colour?)
I usually paint an inverted \"u\" on the shoulderplate with 2:1 Skullwhite-Bleachted Bone
You\'re right. Till now i painted not that much metall stuff. I add a imperial mechanicus.
http://www.coolminiornot.com/188058
Da Matze.
There I tried shading with metal. But I think it wasn\'t that good.
Thunderhawker
New member
I have started using snakebite leather as a basecoat, then gold. I then use alternating washes (very thin) of purple and green inks. then highlight again with my metallic gold then a further highlight with P3 Radiant Platinum.
A shoulderplate is a curved surface, so the highlights should look more like a \"V\" or \"T\" shape and the shadows more like a L (and reversed L) along the lower edges.
Here\'s a visual idea of what I mean.
