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I have a question for anyone that has used auric armor gold. I have been painting my black legion for a while now and I bought two golds, for the base I use Balthasar gold, i love this stuff. It goes on smooth and covers great like a base should. The second I bought Auric armour gold, I have had the worst time with this paint, It is by far the worst metallic paint I have used from GW. It is to the point where I think I might have got a bad pot of it. First I tried to thin it using water for bad results, next i tried it straight from the pot as it is a layer paint and metallic I thought maybe I wasn't supposed to thin it, it was even worse. Third I tried to thin it with a combo of drying r3tarder and floaid and wound up about the same as thinning it with water. The last and best option I found was a 4 part paint to one part lahmian medium, but it still is horrible. When I say having problems to best describe it would be that the paint dries on parts of what im painting but not on others leaving a outline all most, and when you try to do a second coat it still piles up on the outline of the previous coat. The only way I find to not have it happen, and its a horrible technique im sure, is to load the brush more then normal and make one pass at it not touching it more then the one time.

I remember using burnished gold and shinning gold and don't remember having any issues like this with them.

So I guess my question is does anyone have issues with their Auric Armour gold? Or did I get a bad pot of it?

Does anyone have any tips I could try short of buying a new pot?

Thanks Dakka.

With the new metallics I have found they improve vastly if you mix them up with a cocktail stick before use - scraping the walls of the pot.

Maybe this will help - I've not really had any problems with the metallics after that.

Should try Vallejo Old Gold. You have to thin it with alchohol, and you can't mix it with acrylic's but it goes on super thin, coats excellent, and looks phenominal.

Trust me I stirred the hell out of the pot.

I have a pot of p3 gold but it does not match the rest of the gold in my army.

Maybe I can mix the p3 with the auric armor, or even the Base gold with the AA. Do you guys think that would work?

I'm using auric armour very scarcely. Mostly I wash shining gold with gryphonne sepia and then auric armour only goes on the outer edges. Haven't really tried layering it yet, but I have to shake my pot much more than the other new paints before use, too!

Ignore the grey highlighting...

Sounds like poorly mixed paint. I have found the new range to require considerably more shaking/stiring than the previous encarnations.

That said, burnished gold(the old equivalent) was hardly the most forgiving colour in the citadel range.

I fixed mine by adding water and flow improver to it (about 0.4mls of each) then shaking the hell out of it and transfering it to a better pot (the P3 style). Now it's thinner and there's more shaking room in the pot, and it works fine.

That said, though, I'm also using it solely as a highlight colour - either for AP greedy gold or the new GW gehenna (which I gave the same treatment)

I use Vallejo Glorious Gold, thin it with Glaze medium and it lets me do lovely smooth coats with great coverage.