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I'm painting the sisters of silence. I'm achieving the golden colour by drubrushing Balthasar Gold over Warplock Bronze and realised how simple it is to achieve a good effect with metals. Both blends and drybrushes go together perfectly. Any idea how?

The more you drybrush a metallic the more the pigment reduces and the metal flakes show, so you basically achieve a beautiful gradient from the colour through to a silver highlight.

Because of natural reflections. A similar amount of light will shine off the metallic flakes regardless of the underlying colour of the metallic.

If you want to intentionally create sharper transitions you mix in non-metallic colours to reduce the amount of metallic flakes in certain areas or use localised glazes/washes to reduce the reflections off the metallic flakes.