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Question is in the title; how do you paint gold? I'm particularly interested in a dark, aged gold rather than the spiffing new shiny form.

I use the now OOP Reaper Pro Series Dragon Gold. I don't know what I'll do when it runs out. I'm sure that other companies have a similar color.

Basically if you are using GW paints you can mix Shining Gold with Scorched Brown and you should get a dark gold color.

with GW paints and washes there are two ways I do it.

For the Ultramarines gold trim and chest eagles I use a base coat of Scorched brown, then I use a shinning gold to scorched brown 1:1, then Shinning gold. All the wile I leave areas unpainted with the new coat. So the deepest layer is scorched brown and the middle layer looks like shadows and the final layer is the shinning gold with an extreme highlight of mithril silver mix with shinning gold 1:1. If the colors are to bright wash with devlan mud to get a lot darker or gryphon sepia for slightly darker.

The second method is Chaos black under coat with a heavy dry-brush of chain mail. Highlighted with mithril silver then wash with ogren flesh then 2 washes of gryphon sepia. Final highlight of chain mail and your good. If the final highlight is to bright wash areas with gryphon sepia. This is the technique I used to paint my sanguinor and sanguinary guard.

Take luck.

For just an easy way of doing quick, moderately dark gold, dwarf bronze -> badab black -> drybrush shining gold

May be more like a shiny bronze, but it is stupidly simple...

After a primer coat on the model, I have based with Boltgun Metal then apply a even coat of Shining Gold. This will make it bright but don't lose faith yet. Apply a wash of Devin Mud to the gold and let it dry. Then apply a watered down Badab Black to it.

I have also used Flesh Wash useing the same method but the gold has a lite red hue to it.

With anything new you try, always use it on a test model before you start the whole army.

Hope this helps.

Black under-coat.
Tin Bitz base-coat
Dry brush Gold
Wash-mix of dev mud & sepia
Dry brush Gold
Final very light dry brush silver

I paint as I would other colours.

I forget the GW names, but they do a light gold and a deeper gold. I use the deeper gold, and then shade either with tin bits or dark brown. I highlight broadly with the lighter gold and touch up the edges in silver. Depending on the overall finish I'll use more light or more dark colours in this range.

vallejo golds are much, much better than GWs

Mix a little dark brown into your gold and test the color.
The secondary color should be a mix with a warmer brown.
Then some straight gold color
Highlight with a mix of silver and gold.

basecoat scorched brown followed by a mix of shining gold/boltgun metal(not a lot of boltgun metal thou). wash with badab black to get the details followed by devlan mud when the badab black is dry.
after that you can use watered down(lots of water) hawk turqois for weathering.

One of the good tips I have discovered is using washes of varying colors of green over gold surfaces. It gives great aged quality and makes the yellow in gold "pop" quite nicely.

I do Scorched brown > Shining Gold > Badab black/Gryphonne Sepia wash

Dude I did a HUGE Gold experiment with nearly every different paint brand and several different recipes, check it out: http://atticwars40k.blogspot.com/2011/10/great-gold-rush-quest-for-best-gold.html

Gunzhard wrote:Dude I did a HUGE Gold experiment with nearly every different paint brand and several different recipes, check it out: http://atticwars40k.blogspot.com/2011/10/great-gold-rush-quest-for-best-gold.html

Very thorough and enlightening. Good work, mate!
(though, based on pictures provided, I found the expanded VMC 1 gold to be the best looking)

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/399060.page

I thought this was an excellent tutorial for painting gold, hope it helps!

Iranna.

Gunzhard wrote:Dude I did a HUGE Gold experiment with nearly every different paint brand and several different recipes, check it out: http://atticwars40k.blogspot.com/2011/10/great-gold-rush-quest-for-best-gold.html

This is awesome. I might have to do a squad of golden Chaos Marines. Hmm maybe Golden Berzerkers. Definitely going to grab some Vallejo air stuff and start spraying this soon.

Iranna wrote: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/399060.page

I thought this was an excellent tutorial for painting gold, hope it helps!

Iranna.

I used this method on a set of Sanguinary Guard backpacks. The brown basecoat makes applying the gold really easy and I found it gave a really rich colour as a result. I would recommend the foundation paint though, gives you a nice rich, thin base.

Best thing to bear in mind when you paint gold is to make it really "pop' you want to put a base color of dark brown or red prior to your preferred golds.

I usually base with scorched brown
then shining gold
a highlight of burnished gold
a rough 50/50 ir so mix of burnished gold and mithril silver
a final highlight of silver is optional