So, for the gold i have used shining gold as my main colour. I like that it is sort of greenish in the gold. I'm sorry there won't be any step by step pictures. That's because i don't plan on painting another golden guy anytime soon, unless i feel the urge to field yet another captain of some sort. I paint them gold as i find it looks cool and singles them out easily on the tabletop.

Anyway, this is sort of from memory... i kind of wing it a little when i paint and never really follow an exact recepie. I do however always use plenty of water (otherwise it will just be lots of lumps in the paint, specially with metallic paints) except maybe the very sharpest highlights where i find a slightly thicker paint gives me more control.

I started out with basecoating a dark colour on the armour. I belive it was black, orange and gold mixed together into a dark brown yet slightly metallic colour. Thereafter i pick out the shiny parts, those areas that i want to reflect a lot of light using more or less shining gold. I then work alot with the shadow parts, mixing gold with orange, black and sometimes green instead of orange (i think) but putting less and less of the other colours into the gold as i go brighter. Some areas i simply dont want to be shiny at all, so there i use no metallic paint into the mixtures so that it gets really dull. For the highlights i have mixed mithrill silver with shining gold, but just so much silver that it still stays golden.

What i belive gives the worn look is the way i apply the highlights. If you look at the collar or the chest eagle, you can see damage and chipps in the gold. It's simple, i never highlighted it i just left it "blank" and painted the shiny parts in sort of blotches. Not finishing the entire line there gives the apperance of chipped armour. One could ocourse paint the chipes, but i found this to look more realistic since metallic paint is all about creating reflecting and dull areas, using the natural lightsources ( or artificial in the form of lightbulbs of course). I also have a sort of zenital approach (the idea of light comming from a source above...like the sun, if you are unfamilliar with the term) in what is painted dull and what is painted reflecting. So there is alot more pure gold at the top of his armour than at the bottom. If you look at the legs there is very little that is shiny, just the very edges if his legs and so forth while the top is amlost the opposite. However, i haven't painted the non-gold stuff in this mindset as they don't need to create reflections in the same way to look good.

I don't know if this was of any help, but you can always ask again if it was to unclear. There may be more colours involved, i don't remember, but i sort of often paint with a limited palette. In my mind, it's the other stuff, like the red and bone of the purity seals, that really brings out the gold and makes it interesting.