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Me again

I have new experience with the new GW paints but I'm having to head down to my local to pick up a mail order of supplies, while im down there I'm looking to grab some paints... What I need exactly is a couple of paints that I can combine to make a really nice gold effect and highlighting... I'm not to bothered whether the actual method / combination uses metallics or not but yeah...

Any colors / combination suggestions with GW's new paint range for a good looking gold effect?




P.s. Pic's or examples of how the effect is supposed to look would be really nice too >.<

I don't think anyone is going to have any example pics just yet. Here is a studio pic and there formula though. GW's paint chart online gives the same suggestion.

There gold looks kinda brassy :S

Personally I prefer a mix of 50-50 between shining gold and dwarf bronze with a wash of Gryphonne Sepia or Devlan Mud depening on how I want to show. I will try to post a pic as soon as I get back home

That would be awesome thanks

I prefer a basecoat of P3 Hammerfall Khaki (you can use Bleached Bone), then Shining gold, then a wash of Gryphonne Sepia, then a drybrush of Burnished Gold, then maybe doing tips in Mithril Silver. No idea what the newfangled equivalents are called, unfortunately.

Pic related:

Thats more like what I'm going for... I might be able to get ahold of some of those paints at clearance value saying that now that the new paints are in.

Sasa0mg wrote:There gold looks kinda brassy :S

I 100% agree... that was my experience also, check out my HUGE GOLD experiment hehe: http://atticwars40k.blogspot.com/2011/10/great-gold-rush-quest-for-best-gold.html

Good article Gunzhard. When are you adding your experience with Vallejo Liquid Gold series? I see you mention it, but that you are not covering it now.

Go figure I actually like this one best: Vallejo Model Colour method3

though..

GW paints "Mathieu Fontaine" method:

and

Vallejo Model Colour method 2

Do look nice and are very similar. If I can get ahold of the right paints I might be able to do that one sooner. If not it looks like I'm ordering from vallejo again.

Albiet who knows with the new paint range, but the old paint range, how I liked to do gold (alot due to my gold paints always failing when I needed them)
was to paint the surface mithril silver, then 2 washes of gryphon sepia and it gets a nice burnished gold almost bronze look without the flaky shine.