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Hey all

I have a really really old Captain Tycho model, the one they actually sold under the name Blood Angels Captain, to repaint.

I've seen the way GW do their Sanguinary Guard/Stormcast, which seems to be their defacto gold armour method at this time.

I am also trying to be a bit of a cheapskate. I really don't want to spend £6+ on the two gold paints (Retributor Armour/Liberator Gold) that I don't have, as I'll very very likely only use them on this model.

So, I'm wondering if this, working with the paints I have, would look any good on him?

Base of a brown or black, probably brown. Followed by Balthasar Gold Air, followed by Agrax Earthshade, followed by Gehenna's Gold (or a 50/50-ish mix of Gehnna's Gold and Auric Armour Gold), and for edge highlights Auric Armour Gold and Runefang Steel.

Thanks in advance

Rob Lee wrote:
Hey all

I have a really really old Captain Tycho model, the one they actually sold under the name Blood Angels Captain, to repaint.

I've seen the way GW do their Sanguinary Guard/Stormcast, which seems to be their defacto gold armour method at this time.

I am also trying to be a bit of a cheapskate. I really don't want to spend £6+ on the two gold paints (Retributor Armour/Liberator Gold) that I don't have, as I'll very very likely only use them on this model.

So, I'm wondering if this, working with the paints I have, would look any good on him?

Base of a brown or black, probably brown. Followed by Balthasar Gold Air, followed by Agrax Earthshade, followed by Gehenna's Gold, and for edge highlights Auric Armour Gold and Runefang Steel.

Thanks in advance

For gold i do retributor armour gold then Nuln oil wash / Auric armour gold / Liberator gold , Over what ever the primed color is, grey / black etc, seems to look good to me. Don't know if that helps but good luck any way. ( you can see alot of gold in my pictures )

Edit - But what you said sounds fine, i assume you mean its primed brown or black?