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Hi dakka, I'm busy churning through some ultramarine bikers at the moment and am satisfied with my methods for damage on blue armour and silver metal - but how about gold? Does anyone have any experience with this? Im failing to recall any examples of gold miniatures painted in a less than mint condition. For what i have in mind, I go over my regal blue base coat with ultramarine blue and then brown and black for depth. How could I approach this for scratched and battered gold? Google image search tends to show only severe examples, whereas I'm an enthusiast for a minimal approach. I've included a photo of a space wolf leg I found in a painting tutorial which displays the type of battle damage I'm trying to achieve.

Regards
Citizen Luka

Same principle applies. Use a dark brown for the shade, and a silver gold for the highlight. 'scratches' look more convincing than chips.

Thanks winterdyne! Very much appreciated, I'm a huge fan of your work.

Regards

Check out Bohun's work tho on CMON. Pretty much The undisputed master of metal effects IMO.