BLARGAG!!! Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 shining gold => flesh wash => shining gold => burnished gold => 50/50 burnished gold and mithril silver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyescrossed Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 For a richer, darker gold, I do Dwarf Bronze, Shining Gold, Devlan Mud, Shining Gold, Burnished Gold, 50/50 Burnished Gold/Mithril Silver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valhallan42nd Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Tin bitz-Brazen Brass-shining gold- gryphonne sepia- shining-burnished-mythril http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z216/mattstanley75/Celestial%20Lions/Valhallan42ndsOldSchoolChallenge-1.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikik Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 got this from a white dwarf it gives a real natural gold basecoat: 1:1 scorched brown:shining gold mix 1st highlight: pure shining gold 2ed highlight: 1:1 shining gold: mithril silver shade: 1:1 chaos black:scorched brow blackline with this mix final highlight: pure mithril silver glaze: if you like you can glaze the gold with green purple or brown to get a slightly diverent effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Captain Andrecus Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 This thread contains lots of great advice on painting gold... That should help you out a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naysmith Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I dont know if its of use but may be an interesting fact. Pure Gold is quite rare i think its often mixed with other metals. The most common alloys are gold + silver and gold + copper. An gold + silver alloy has an green hue to it while gold +copper alloys have a red hue. Maybe mainly usefull for fluff + background. cya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kable Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Thanks all for the help! Most appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glsn Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 I used Tau Sept Ochre as a base, then Shining Gold dry brushed over, with a Gryphin Septia wash. Turned out well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeril Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Heres how I do gold. Bestial Brown basecoat. Pure Shining Gold. Very lightly wash with Delvan mud in the recesses. Of course this is because Delvan mud is the only wash I have, I'm sure others would be much better for this. Highlight with Burnished gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreadnought Baraziel Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Schorched Brown+Shining Gold => Flesh Wash => Shining Gold => Burnished Gold Simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epic Thoughts Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 I hate Shining Gold. The color is far too orange for my tastes. I tend to favor 'Pure Gold' from Folk Art's metallic line. I've used it, with a really watered down Bestial Brown to great affect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdog Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 There's sooooo many shades of gold, it would depend on what kind of finish you're looking for. I've got a bunch of shiny gold marines finished at the moment. I mixed up may own shade of gold using a full pot of Mithril Silver, adding Flesh Wash and Yellow Ink before mixing it through. To get the finish, all I did was paint the whole mini in my gold mix, apply a heavy layer of Flesh Wash with a basecoat brush and recoat the armour plates with the gold colour when the ink had dried. Once I've got the army base coats finished, I'm going to mix more mithril silver into the gold and hard-edge highlight the minis. Here's some piccies for you to see the minis at the base coated, washed and re-coated stage. No highlights have been applied to these yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Captain Andrecus Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Wow! Nicely done on those gold Marines! What were the percentages of that gold color you mixed up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdog Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Wow! Nicely done on those gold Marines! What were the percentages of that gold color you mixed up? Cheers. I managed to get acrylic artists ink from a local art shop which has a pipette dropper thingy inside the cap. They're from a company called Daler-Rowley and come in the top of their 29.5 ml ink bottles. Here's a link to the web-site http://www.daler-rowney.com/content/fw-artists-inks I cleaned out the dropper using water, then used 3 fills of GW Flesh Wash and 3 fills of the Daler-Rowley FW acrylic ink. I think the colour was called Process Yellow 675. I added these to a full bottle of GW Mithril Silver (a little messy because it gets almost too full). Stir the mix with the end of a brush (the bit without bristles) and then give the bottle a shake to ensure it's mixed through and thats it ready to go. It's not difficult to mix nice metallics. I tend to start with Mithril Silver and just add the ink colours I want straight to the pot. By using the dropper it's pretty easy to mix colours consistently if you need more later on. I'm planning a battle company using the gold and I've had to mix another batch up already but it's an exact match. Well worth buying a pot of ink for a dropper, although I'm sure you'd be able to get them elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longscope Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Bigdog: Very nice work. Quite impressive. Myself, I usually do a Brass>Shining gold>Burnt Umber (liquitex) wash>Shining>shining+mithril. Seems to work fairly well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saadeath Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 I just paint them shining gold, then a coat of tin bitz(very thin) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crayoneater Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Prime Black Vallejo Glorius Gold GW Brown Ink (Soak the model) Drybrush Vallejo Glorius Gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawain Veteris Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 My way of painting gold is different to those described above. although it does take quite a while to do. 1. Paint the area with Brazen brass to an even coat. 2. Do the same with shining gold. 3. Dry brush burnished gold. 3. Wash whole area with Devlan Mud wash. 4. Drybrush lightly with burnished gold. 5. Drybrush even more lightly with chainmail mixed with burnished gold. (dont use mythril silver) 6. Finally lightly wash some recesses with Thrakka green wash to give it a reflective effect. Leviathan purple and asurman blue also work. Ill try and get some pictures up of my captain and you can see how mine looks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragax Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 well, im not the worlds best painter but this is what i seem to find works best: 1; undercoat in black 2; drybrush on shining gold 3: apply devlan mud ink 4: trim edges with a 2:1 mix of shining gold to mithril silver comes up a nice dark gold colour with a light gold metallic trim, suits my darker ultrasmurfs well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinkenheim Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 i use a basecoat of 2:1 shining gold-scorched brown, then a shade of devlan mud, repaint the area with the base mix leaving the shading in the recesses and then start adding mithril silver to the mix... before the final highlgiht i give it a thin wash of purple ink (i still have the ink, dont know how the new washes will look) and there you are... looks something like this... +edit+ gives it an antique feel rather than shiny new gold, so depends what your after... http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp86/stinkenheim/DSC00451.jpg Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_bunny Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 black undercoat Mithril silver wetbrush yellow ink wash shining gold dry brush 50/50 gold and mithril drybrush mithril highlight 50/50 delvan mud, and yellow ink wash It works quite well, especially on all gold armor :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirax Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Tin Bitz, then an overcoat of Shining Gold. Find it comes out smooth and nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berzerker Pezz Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 You can shade golds with glazes of colors as well, such as adding purples into the mix. Can add a neat touch depending on what color the model is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinkenheim Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 most common colours to glaze gold with are purple for the antique look and green because it brings out the gold colour (apparantly, never tried it myself) although red can also look nice on the right model as it makes a semi decent copperish tone to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berzerker Pezz Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 most common colours to glaze gold with are purple for the antique look and green because it brings out the gold colour (apparantly, never tried it myself) although red can also look nice on the right model as it makes a semi decent copperish tone to it Purely for shading, purple can also be nice on more yellow-pigmented gold paints, because of yellow and purple being complementary colors. Depending on the shade of purple and hue, it can also be used to create a regal/royal feel on the miniature. All sorts of cool stuff you can do with metallics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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