<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Taking my gold to the next level"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/8.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Taking my gold to the next level
This is my current technique:
First a tin bitz or shining gold basecoat (depending on what I'm going for)
wash with devlin or gryphon (again, depending on what I'm going for)
highlight back up with shining
highlight with burnished
highlight with mithril
paint over the mithril with burnished again to tone it down.

The main problem I have (and I notice it in MANY pictures I see others do online) is that the gold ends up a little...grainy. You can get a VERY smooth look with bolt metal/chainmail/mithril, but shining/burnished never looks as good.

GM's pics, and a few I see online, have a very smooth metalic look to them that I would like to emulate. I'm thinking it might be the citadel paints, or perhaps my paints are old (though I don't think so. But it gets hard to keep track of). I hear good things about vallejo (or whatever it is called) metallics. Would that solve it?

Finally, any good tips for improving my technique? Thanks in advanced.
]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/271451/1214024.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/271451/1214024.page GMT Taking my gold to the next level http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/271451/1214057.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/271451/1214057.page GMT Re:Taking my gold to the next level http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/271451/1214290.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/271451/1214290.page GMT Re:Taking my gold to the next level You can do this in layers until you find the color tone you whant it to have, it will get slightly darker with each wash of sepia.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/271451/1214302.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/271451/1214302.page GMT Re:Taking my gold to the next level http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/271451/1216577.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/271451/1216577.page GMT Taking my gold to the next level http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/271451/1216581.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/271451/1216581.page GMT