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Any suggestions for painting gold armour? I am planning on using at least one unit of Sang Guard for my BA's and I am unsure how to paint the gold armour. I am thinking priming black, then starting with a tin bits with dry drushed layers of Burning gold and shining gold. IS ther better ways?

Yeah, there are better ways, but they do get technically challenging. More info on what you're happy doing would be useful I guess.

Paint them Mythril Silver and give them two good washes with Gryphonne Sepia. For how simple this is the results are outstanding.

Black - Tin Bitz - Gold is the route I take and it looks OK (as far as my meagre skills allow, anyway). I add a touch of Badab Black over the top to quiet the colour down - not sure how you'd highlight it if you want your Sang Guard really blingbling shiny though.

winterdyne wrote:Yeah, there are better ways, but they do get technically challenging. More info on what you're happy doing would be useful I guess.

I am sure I can do most anything, just never had to paint gold before, well gold in mass like this.

This month´s White Dwarf has a really nice NMM gold article in it, that covers all the basics of gold armor.

It is a pretty lengthy process, but looks amazing.

If you're looking to use metallic paints, I definitely wouldn't drybrush gold over black. It won't look quite right.

Try using a dark (though not too dark, unless you're going for bronze) brown as a basecoat instead of black. Depending on how many shades you want to do, gradually add gold to a lighter brown/yellow until you're highlighting with straight gold, and then apply final highlights with a very light silver. Wash it (Gryphonne Sepia is a good wash to use for gold), then touch it up until you're happy with it. Avoid using too much silver on the final stages. Drybrushing should work fine for the first stage (up until you give it a wash), but then I would try to focus on blending for the touch ups after the wash if you can manage it. It shouldn't take too much work, just enough to brighten it up a bit, as washes tend to make metallics look rather dull.

Mixing metallics with flat paint for shading has the nice added effect of giving the metal a brighter sheen towards the more highlighted areas, which is generally what most metals do. Metal obscured by shadow does not shine, and this technique should convey this well enough. Sorry if it's not in-depth enough, I could give you a rundown on ideal colors to use if you need it.

Xanthos wrote:This month´s White Dwarf has a really nice NMM gold article in it, that covers all the basics of gold armor.

It is a pretty lengthy process, but looks amazing.

+1

This article is well worth a look if you fancy a stab at non-metallic gold.

My recipe for gold is pretty simple:

1. Black undercoat.
2. Two coats of thinned Shining Gold.
3. Chestnut Ink wash.
4. Shining Gold, leaving wash in recesses.
5. Highlight with 75/25 Shining Gold/Mithril Silver.

I realize Chestnut Ink is no longer available, so you might want to try Gryphonne Sepia as a decent stand-in. Example below.

I have a base coat of krylon I use for my retrievers, and then go over that with a sepia wash to dirty it up a little after doing the details. I have two pics posted of the gold I do. My whole army is gold based though. I'm thinking of getting some of the sang guard to use for vanguard in my army

This is one picture

For a dull bronze / gray without metallics, a coat of Codex Grey + two or three washes with sepia works. Highlight with Bleached Bone.

I like this recipe:

VMC leather brown
Highlight with VMC bronze
Highlight with VMC old gold
Devlan mud wash in deep recesses
Sepia wash over everything that's too bright
Highlight again with VMC old gold
Continue highlights if wanted by adding silver to old gold (mithril or VMC natural steel)

That's what I did on this Dante.

The army man I like your pic :#

-=Scar=- wrote:The army man I like your pic :#

Thank you!

Undercoat black.

Paint mithril silver.

wash twice - 3 times (depending on thickness) with Gryphonne Sepia

Highlight edges and raised areas with mithril silver (front of guards, anywhere the light will hit and reflect)

Wash with dev. mud once.

highlight with mithril silver again, this time fine lines around armour edges and on raised light areas.

use skull white in the center of the light areas to create a "reflective surface"

Hope that helps

I sometimes use Brown Ink, which in my experience can look awesome. If you do it wrong it looks like some did a #2 on your model.

LN: I used to use brown ink lol, only problem is that you end up with something very bright and shiny, you have to use a matt varnish on it afterwards.

the_Armyman wrote:My recipe for gold is pretty simple:

1. Black undercoat.
2. Two coats of thinned Shining Gold.
3. Chestnut Ink wash.
4. Shining Gold, leaving wash in recesses.
5. Highlight with 75/25 Shining Gold/Mithril Silver.

I realize Chestnut Ink is no longer available, so you might want to try Gryphonne Sepia as a decent stand-in. Example below.

Is that guy carrying grenades w/ gold pins!?! Those are a little too valuable to throw me thinks...

CT GAMER wrote:

the_Armyman wrote:My recipe for gold is pretty simple:

1. Black undercoat.
2. Two coats of thinned Shining Gold.
3. Chestnut Ink wash.
4. Shining Gold, leaving wash in recesses.
5. Highlight with 75/25 Shining Gold/Mithril Silver.

I realize Chestnut Ink is no longer available, so you might want to try Gryphonne Sepia as a decent stand-in. Example below.

Is that guy carrying grenades w/ gold pins!?! Those are a little too valuable to throw me thinks...

Its a good thing you arnt meant to throw the pin then isnt it

You may want to undercoat black, do bestial brown over that. Yes sound strange. Then go with a brazen brass to a shinning gold for those guys. Then with mithril silver or skull white hit the very edges to make it pop. The point of using brown is a metallic NMM technique. It will darked the brazen brass slightly, allowing more shadowing. I have used this a few times and it works well. As long as you have a steady hand for the final edge highlights with white. I have also used a gloss white from Vallejo to give it a gleam.

Try some stuff out. Use old bitz. Everyone is different you have to find YOUR nitch.

The way I paint gold is I start with a basecoat of foundation Iyanden darksun, then paint on pure shining gold, then wash with watered down dark flesh (or you can use devlan mud wash), then drubrush highlights with burnished gold. I use the iyanden darksun because shining gold isn't very opaque so that helps give it a nice yellowy gold color in the end.

jbunny wrote:Any suggestions for painting gold armour? I am planning on using at least one unit of Sang Guard for my BA's and I am unsure how to paint the gold armour. I am thinking priming black, then starting with a tin bits with dry drushed layers of Burning gold and shining gold. IS ther better ways?

Golds
Base coat w/ a black spray
Base coat with Silver spray
Base coat Vallejo Model Color brass

Wash model in Badab Black
recapture base with thinned VMC Brass and on highlights
Highlight 2 with VMC old Gold
Highlight 3 w/ VMC old gold 50:50 with mithril

Shade w/ Red wash (forgot the name) in creases carrying a bit onto the gold
Shade w/ thinned chestnut ink

Final highlight w/ mithril 70:30 w/ old gold

I had a really good and simple result on the armor of a paladin mini today. Burnished gold with several washes of delvan mud overtop, highlighted with burnished gold. It came out with a really warm tone to the armor I love.

Lord Nimr0d wrote:I sometimes use Brown Ink, which in my experience can look awesome. If you do it wrong it looks like some did a #2 on your model.

I have been using sepia ink on mine and i would agree, i have to be very careful how much ink I add or it does seem like stuff went everywhere in the face of the upcoming battle

My method is as thus...

Black undercoat
Shining Gold Highlight one
Dev Mud Wash
50/50 Shining/Burnished Gold highlight..

you can see what it looks like on a sanguinary guard kitbash here...

http://eyeforterror.com/?p=344

Hope it can be of some help...

Golds are tricky, and can easily turn out gloppy looking. The way I do it, is base black, then do a medium drybrush of boltgun metal(mithril silver if you want it brighter) on the gold areas. Then I dry brush the gold, but make sure you take almost ALL of the gold off your brush. Your basically just brushing the golden pigments onto the metal. After that for it to look darker(GRIMDARK!!!!!) I wash with black. Heres a bad pic of the idea

Hi guys,

Just thought i'd share a link to the sanguinary guard converted models with their gold armour...

http://eyeforterror.com/?p=393

If you are feeling ambitious!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/291528.page

This is amazing looking and nmm.

MasterSlowPoke wrote:Paint them Mythril Silver and give them two good washes with Gryphonne Sepia. For how simple this is the results are outstanding.

I'm more a fan of 3 washes but then again I'm more going for an aged gold/ high polished bronze look

I kind of like GirlPaintings approach to the Gold armour on her Dante
check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTFFuyRCg2w&playnext_from=TL&videos=xEPyW_awiAw