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I'm making a few statues right now, a mix of stone and bronze, and I need to know how I can replicate this:

and this:

effect with GW paints? I've got pretty much all browncolours, Balthasar Gold, Gehennas gold, Runelord Brass, and Sycorax Bronze. Will those paints be enough, or will I need to buy more?

For bronze/gold metallic, I start with a gold base. For Bronze, I'd throw down a base of dark brown, and then a layer of bronze, a dark brown wash, and then gentle highlights of brass.

For the top, Rhinox Hide and a coat of 'Ardcoat.
Bottom:Balthasar with a seraphim sepia wash

The top statue doesn't look very bronze with me. The bottom looks almost coppery.

The question is: how much work do you wan to spend on it, and how big are the statues?

I would start with a darker base, like Warplock Bronze. The nice thing about warplock is that you don't have to paint brown under it (the coverage is awesome). Don't worry if it's not 100% covered over the black primer.

Then drybrush balthazar gold liberally, keeping your brushstrokes in the same direction. If you're spending more time on it, and/or it's a smaller statue layering works too, but keep the recesses dark

Then apply a wash: Agrax Earthshade if you want it dark; Reikland Fleshshade if you want it rich; and Seraphim Sepia if you want it in between.

Then drybrush Balthazar Gold again, or Hashnut Copper (whichever color you like more). Then, for the edges, drybrush Gehenna gold, and finally for the corners that that would catch the light, drybrush runelord brass.

This isn't esxactly the color you're looking for, but it gives you an idea of drybrushing statues in this manner would result in (note, I didn't use the colors I just listed, because I wasn't going for that coppery color) --



To achieve your upper photo, frankly, it doesn't look metallic at all to me. I would start with a slightly greenish dark grey, like Skavenblight Dinge, and wash it with a 50/50 mix of Nuhln Oil and Agrax Earthshade (or just Agrax, and then do Nuhln in the recesses, if you don't wan tot mix). Then drybrush that up with Skavenblight Dinge again, then Eshin, then Dawnstone. Then wash the whole thing with 50/50 Nuhln + Lahmian Medium; and finally, drybrush really lightly the edges with Administratum Grey.

When you're all done, and it's 100% dry, hit it with a gloss coat.

 Talys wrote:
The top statue doesn't look very bronze with me.

Its one massive block of bronze, it couldn't be more bronze if it tried.

I posted you a great guide to the second colour on your original thread!

Seems Warplock Bronze is the closest new GeeDub paint to old Tin Bitz, though doesn't look quite as murky and odd which is a shame. Would have done the first colourway in a more 'tabletop' fashion quite well, just by skipping the highlighting.

 dragqueeninspace wrote:

 Talys wrote:
The top statue doesn't look very bronze with me.

Its one massive block of bronze, it couldn't be more bronze if it tried.

It may be made of bronze, but it doesn't look like the color bronze.

I think of this, when I think of polished bronze:



I think of this, when I think aged and oxidized bronze -

For old oxidized bronze like the horse.

i like just painting it Burnt umber or old scorched brown. maybe add a little metal silver or gold to it (though i dont like it shining much)

Then washing with very diluted turquoise.

then adding more to recesses.

It looks way more worn and old that way.

GW has Nihilakh Oxide for the verdigris.

I primed black, drybrush tin bitz, brass, black wash, highlight bronze, then wash of the new technical turquoise oxide.