Painting: Metallics Gold

Gold Basics
GW Paints:  Tin Bitz, Dwarf Bronze, Shining Gold, Burnished Gold
Best basecoat: A dark brown, a dark brown mixed with some Shining Gold, a dark gold (I use Tin Bitz or the dark brown with Shining Gold mix).
Best washes: Devlan Mud, Sepia.
Basic recipe: Dark brown basecoat, Shining Gold, Burnished Gold Highlight.

My go-to gold recipe:

• Dark brown (Scorched Brown or similar paint) mixed with a small amount of Shining Gold
• Layer Shining Gold
• Wash the entire area with Devlin Mud
• Re-layer Shining Gold, bringing back some color while preserving the shading from the Devlan Mud wash
• Layer on a Shining Gold/Mithril Silver mix for highlights.
• One last layer of Shining Gold/Mithril Silver, this time with more silver mixed in.
• Wash the entire area with Sepia, pulling the wash to the areas you want to be darker/richer.  You can really see this on the Spear Elves in the Silver section; check out the gold bits right below the spearheads.   

Painting: Metallic Silvers

Metallic paints are great, and that is what this post is going to be about.  I won't be exploring everything, but this should be a solid foundation

With metallic paints, you can go from really easy to really intricate in your techniques and recipes.  How intricate depends on how much effort and thought you put into the process.  Let's jump right in, shall we?

There are two basic types of metallic paints: silver and gold.  For generalization purposes, bronze/copper go under gold, steel is under silver, et cetera.  I'll start with the silver stuffs and cover golds and rust/weathering in their own separate posts.

Silver Basics

• GW Paints: Boltgun Metal, Chainmail, Mithril Silver 
• Best basecoat: Black
• Washes: Badab Black
• Basic recipe: Black basecoat.  Boltgun Metal.  Mithril Silver highlights.