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My INSTAR paint line is going to be offering different colour metallics other than golds, bronzes, silvers etc so there is more uniqueness with them as well as better for highlighting other metallic colours the same way you would highlight a non metallic colour.

However, adding ink would take away the metallic-ness (is that a word????) Because it would begin to water it down too much. During early experiments when we were starting to develop our metallic paints, we tried using. a metallic additive and then adding colour to it, but this failed miserably and didn't really give the desired effect we wanted. We even tried silver metallic paint and normal paint together in a 50/50 mix, but this basically ended up not being metallic at all, all that happened was that the colour if the paint ended up brighter but with no metallic presence, at least none that could be seen, so it would stand to reason that your idea would probably end up the same way.

Ultimately, metallics are not easy to make even though they may look it. This also reflects in the price difference of metallics as they take extra work to get them to a suitable level for model painting.

As AllSeeingSkink said, you'd be better off finding companies that make off the shelf colours, you could try airfix or humbrol, by even then, they are pretty limited as well.

Metallics are not for the faint hearted, paint is one thing, metallic are quite another!

My INSTAR range is entirely water based with no additives, except of course for the powder.

The only downside is we haven't launched yet :(

I can't tell if you have a yellow light or if it had given it a Perlescent effect and the light is reflecting off the gold particles.

It's a quick work around but for a proper metallic, it really needs to be a metallic powder of that colour for it to really pop.

However, that said, if you're happy with the result then it was a successful test overall

I usually have that problem when trying to take pictures of metallics but a good camera (DSLR type or a high megapixel camera phone) will normally get them to show up at their best,

Your point on it still showing some gold is partly the reason why metallics are so hard to do and as AllSeeingSkink said, it's easier to just buy one rather than trying to do a DIY one unless you know where to go for materials as I did to create them, it took me about 15 different batches and about a month on my INSTAR line to get a really good metallic that we could sell and we tried all sorts of different ways of approaching it, except yours

I'm not flaming you though it's always good to see novel approaches to things to improve the hobby and yours is just another one of these attempts and I salute you for it!

However, since you are already at this stage, the extra wash will probably help fill in the gaps where the gold is showing through, but I'm not sure if it will take more than one coat to do that.