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Hey all

Thinking a bit ahead to painting a Skeleton warrior...

I'd like to paint his shield and sword bronze, so I'm trying to come up with a recipe.

So far I've got this as a recipe, using Citadel paints as that's what I use and have in my stash -

Undercoat black.
base coat normally or heavy drybrush on Runelord Brass (it's now a base paint)
wash with Agrax Earthshade
first edge highlight with some kind of Citadel "gold"? I'm currently thinking Balthasar gold?
Apply Nihilakh Oxide here and there.

I'm stuck on what to use for an extreme edge highlight for the point of the sword for example. Currently thinking Stormhost Silver, but I'm also thinking that would look wrong?

Also not sure the above will look how I want it to. Basically I want the bronze to look like the statue in the GW tutorial for Nihilakh Oxide (video below), but Duncan doesn't state how the statue was painted bronze, nor can I find a tutorial for it on their youtube site.


Anyone here any ideas/tips on this?

Thanks in advance.

Mixing Balthasar gold and silver gives a nice bronze highlight colour

My basic antique bronze recipe is 1:1 sybarite green/mech grey > balthasar gold (heavy dry brush) > castellax bronze (medium dry bursh) > sycorax bronze (light dry brush/edge).

I sometimes add nihilakh oxide to deepen the patina or apply purple wash to deepen the bronze.

bronze can look very different in real life depending on metal composition and oxidation.

Can be anything from nearly black to almost brassy looking. Chocolate with black shading, or brownish-yellow with green oxide in the crevices.

Something that's universally "bronze" would be a brown-ish hue with deep black-brown shade and green oxide in the cracks.

My personal recipe that I like (and this is not any more "correct" than other recipies) is Deathless Metal (can sub in Warplock Bronze) shaded with nuln oil, washed with a 50/50 mix of nihilac oxide and either contrast or lahmian medium, and then drybrushed with Balthasar Gold. (If I remember, I'll post some pics of my Necrons painted like this when I get home)

If you want a more yellow hue you can go base with balthasar gold, shade with agrax, then drybrush with griffon gold.

To more specifically answer your question, that statue looks like Balthasar gold shaded with Agrax then highlighted with . . . not sure. It's definitely one of their more coppery/bronzy layer paints like Sycorax Bronze, and it could even just be balthasar gold again.

I use this myself.

https://youtu.be/96RYPJIbJ_k?list=PLDRrTeWLcLWnuVsWtv0qmPMcXEEyVRSty