Painting gold armour - Using gold dust

[behemoth]

Please, explain me how do you paint gold (on an armour for example).
I have bought medium and gold dust but the result was bad.
Painting realistic gold seems to be very difficult.

Hervé -

[ChickLewis]

Regarding good-looking gold paint, though I really hate to plug Games
Workshop's products, their "bright gold" paint works, in my opinion,
excellently, and gives a good effect. Even after dullcoting the gold still
gleams and looks well.

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[Andy O'Neill]

In article <01bec1a6$ce9118a0$8e26fac1@default>, behemoth
<she...@wanadoo.fr> writes

>Painting realistic gold seems to be very difficult.

Have you considered felt tipped pens?
You can get them with fine nibs and also with bigger 'bullet' felt tips.
Brown acrylic ink or winsor newton ink for 'shading'.

Andy O'Neill
www.l-25.demon.co.uk/index.htm
Liverpool Wargames Association
www.l-25.demon.co.uk/LWA.htm

[Your Name]

behemoth wrote in message <01bec1a6$ce9118a0$8e26fac1@default>...

>Please, explain me how do you paint gold (on an armour for example).
>I have bought medium and gold dust but the result was bad.

>Painting realistic gold seems to be very difficult.
>

> Hervé -

Folkart and CeramCoat make very good metallic paints. I usually paint
black then undercoat with copper, and then paint gold over it. This gives a
very antique look, great for chaos.

For Clean golds, use brown undercoat, then paint with either Ceramcoat
"Brass" or Folkart "Bright Metallic Gold".

Daniel

[RTM]

behemoth wrote:

> Please, explain me how do you paint gold (on an armour for example).

I basecoat with a very dark brown (the color of milk chocolate)
I then drybrush with the old citadel gold, which is an antique-looking
yellow gold.
I then hilite with painted on (thick and brilliant) with a modern
bright yellow gold.

This gives crusty brown recesses and very bright hilites. It looks nice

for a "used and abused" old battle armor look.

-RTM-

[Kurt]

Andy O'Neill wrote in message ...

>In article <01bec1a6$ce9118a0$8e26fac1@default>, behemoth
><she...@wanadoo.fr> writes

>>Painting realistic gold seems to be very difficult.
>

>Have you considered felt tipped pens?
>You can get them with fine nibs and also with bigger 'bullet' felt tips.
>Brown acrylic ink or winsor newton ink for 'shading'.
>

My mum used to paint china plates, and had some gold leaf paint. It was
pretty expensive stuff, but looked like actually gold plate (you know the
kinds you get around kitschy tea sets and stuff).

I was thinking of buying a bottle for detailing figs with, but I don't know
if you'd pay $50(Aus) to paint all your gold armour - but if you did, it
would last your whole army anyway.

Kurt

[moses]

behemoth wrote in message <01bec1a6$ce9118a0$8e26fac1@default>...

>Please, explain me how do you paint gold (on an armour for example).

>I have bought medium and gold dust but the result was bad.

>Painting realistic gold seems to be very difficult.

Hi,
On the spur of the moment, I once painted my bronze armoured guy's with
a leather kind of colour (light brown/buff) and dry brushed it gold. Looked
good, imho. I know that you can easily over do gold, so try that, and see
how it works!

Ian\

[einhorn]

If you have a crafts store or a department store nearby, look for the flet
tipped Calligraphy pens, with fine tips. They make shiny gold, silver, copper,
whatever, and they are not to costly. One brand that I have used is
"Marvy/Uchida".