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Ever tried macro and stay like, 20-30 cm (or 15-20") away from it while taking the pictures? Does wonders to me. ;D

When you're about to paint gold, start with a dark basecoat of brown on the area you want gold, I think I used bronzed flesh, I'll check when I get home.

After painting it brown I just simply painted it gold, and washed with both badab black and devlan mud, highlighting with gold and mithrill silver on the most pointy edges or from where I want the light effect to come from.


But why buy a helmet when you can get some break fluid and let him be in there for about 24 hours and them brush it off with a toothbrush.

You should get some of those washes, it's seriously one of the best things GW ever have produced, it makes life so simple! I've seen minis basecoated in white and then covered with only washes and it turned out pretty well and is a quick way for a pure tabletop army.


I'll take this step-wise.

Step 1: Undercoat the area with a darker brown of your preferance

Step 2: Paint the area gold.

Step 3: Wash it with badab black.

Step 4: Once dry, wash with devlan mud.

Step 5: Once dry, paint gold on the area again, leaving some areas of course for some deepened effects (like hollowed areas etc).

Step 6: Small thin lines of mithrill silver around the most pointy edges or the edges from where you want the light source to come from.

If I remembers it I can try to make a tutorial at home, hoping that I have something to paint it on that is.


Break fluid is awesome for paint-stripping, it does not ruin plastic models, and after 24 hours you can even get rid of paint applied to the mini years ago, I dropped a couple of black orcs into a break fluid before christmas which were painted when I started the hobby and I was amazed by the result, almost all the former paint was gone, and there's been about 3-4 layers of paint and 2-3 layers of basecoat on them.

Break fluid is something that most people have at home or it can be purchased for a not so high price I think, it does the work anyhow, so it's worth getting some.

The black wash could be enough, but it won't give that much of a deep golden feeling to it, but it's good for shading gold anyhow. ;D

Especially good on silver colours too.

No, you just apply the wash directly to the mini, check out my foundation wash/ink guide in the stickies, could prove usefull to you.

When I use foundation washes I use plenty, not too much so that I drown the whole model, enough to stay in place but yet alot... You'll get the hang of it once you try it out.

Show us some photos of what it looks like now, just try to get some working settings for the camera, and take your time to take the photos, it takes me ages to get pictures I feel like posting due to light and blurr.

Staying a bit away from the mini mostly works for me, and cutting out everything aorund the mini so that I don't get that much space around in the photo.


Blank areas, aka not having random stuff around a model makes the camera most likely to focus on it.

That sounds a bit too plain if you ask me, models needs depth to look a bit more alive IMO.

Well then again the bits I am using my gold for arent really a main thing so that little bit of "dull color" actually helps it come to life when mixed with the more depth stuff.