painting gold

Feanorthenoldor · **Joined:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:44 pm **Posts:** 879

Alright guys, as the title states, I am looking for different ways to paint gold.

My current version is this.
1. Basecoat with shining gold
2. Wash with Devlan Mud
3. Rehighlight with shining gold

This is what I produced with this technique when I used to paint gold all the time a few years back.

So, any suggestions?

More specifically, I'm curious how the last alliance high elves gold is done. Galadhrim's gold seems more "orangy" where the la high elves are more on the yellow side, if that makes sense.

valpas · **Posted:** Wed Jan 14, 2015 7:22 am

I have used green wash/glazes and highlights up to Burnished Gold or even silver for high elves to get the gold look more like spring (while the Galadhrim belong to the autumn of the elves). Hope this made any sense. :-)

-- Pasi

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Wed Jan 14, 2015 8:02 am

Add silver to shining gold for the final edge highlight.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Wed Jan 14, 2015 9:07 am

Use a rich brown first as the base, bestial brown or whatever the current version is. A sepia colour can be used as a glaze to create contrast.

Paradigm · **Joined:** Sun Jan 11, 2015 11:56 am **Posts:** 264

This will sound odd until you try it, but a purple wash, thinned right down and applied before the brown wash, doe wonders for making gold a bit less garish. Here is an example of minis with and without it:

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jdizzy001 · **Posted:** Wed Jan 14, 2015 11:48 am

Sounds like you're ready for some NMM. Google nmm gold and enjoy!

rififivos · **Joined:** Sun Jun 12, 2011 9:03 pm **Posts:** 50

1. Start with a basecoat of bleached bone or similar. It helps a lot when it comes to gold colours.

2. Mix Shining Gold with Mithril Silver (2/1 aproximately as silver is a "stronger" colour than gold). Apply 1 or 2 layers as needed to achieve full coverage.

3. First wash with Devlan Mud, in order to give some depth to the gold.

4. Highlight with the gold mix. Extreme highlight with Chainmail. At this point you can add here and there dots of vallejo's metallic medium as an "extremer" highlight.

5. Finally, wash with a mixture of Devlan Mud and Thraka Green (aproximately 1/1).

The final result should look something like this:

The Galadhrim armour is a little more complicated.
For the helmet, chest, upper legs and arms parts use the above recipe.
For the scalemail part replace the wash tones used in the recipe with Ogryn Flesh.
Finally, the waist part is made of a "redish" leather armour.

Feanorthenoldor · **Joined:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:44 pm **Posts:** 879

thanks for the suggestions everyone!

@jdizzy, I have done NMM before, I actually got quite good at it. You can check it out in my WIP thread. I stopped NMM because it just took too much time haha

@rififivos, thanks for the recipe! I will try this out!

jdizzy001 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 15, 2015 4:51 pm

I hear that! Time usage is my only complaint about nmm as well.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Thu Jan 15, 2015 5:24 pm

NMM is great for single minis and the more you do it the quicker you get. (the way i said that makes it sounds like it takes me 2 mins, unfortunately this is definitely not the case.... Its takes too long! lol)

Gene Parmesan · **Posted:** Thu Jan 15, 2015 6:15 pm

Paradigm wrote:

This will sound odd until you try it, but a purple wash, thinned right down and applied before the brown wash, doe wonders for making gold a bit less garish. Here is an example of minis with and without it:

Click to: Show

Colour theory. Purple would be opposite to yellow/orange/gold on a colour wheel so it would create contrast, and make for a good shadow. Might give this a go.

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