Painting Soft Gold Inquiry

[Aothaine]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UbTVzQNiK_TgYxQGsheDdAAzn5TJjHHl/view?usp=sharing

 

I'm trying to figure out how to paint a soft gold, almost champagne color. Anyone have any ideas on how I could accomplish this? Or maybe a paint line that has this color already?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Fajita Fan]

So you mean a cooler gold without red in it?  Gimme a minute.

[MikhalLeNoir]

X-31 Titanium Gold from Tamiya is close. But shake it well or it ends up as silver^^

[Fajita Fan]

This Rustoleum can for $6 at Walmart doesn’t say primer but it passes the fingernail test and has a good tooth to it for further coats. I tried a shiny paint+primer gold but I can’t get paint to stick to it, almost like the dried surface is hydrophobic. 

 

 

It’s hard to photograph in crappy light but it has no red in it like Retributor armor, it’s more like that gold dry paint GW sells. It’s only bright where the light hits. 

 

 

I started layering contrast paints over it to experiment using this for Custodes. Because it has very little warmth (I.e. red) in it I actually need to use a layer of yellow to get red popping on it - look at the stem versus the lightning bolt. Blues come out a turquoise shade of blue because it’s so cool. 

 

 

It’s cheap and you can layer over it unlike some other metallic sprays where paint just beads on the surface. Dunno if that helps. 

Edited August 11, 2019 by Fajita Fan

[Imren]

Another option is:

1. Base coat with Scale 75 Amber alchemy.
2. First highlight with Scale 75 Amber alchemy mixed 1:1 with Scale75 Citrine alchemy.
3. Second highlight with Scale75 Citrine alchemy.
4. Final highlight with Scale75 Citrine alchemy mixed 1:1 with a silver colour of your choice.

 

That will give you a quite cool, soft champagne-ish gold as you asked for.

[Aothaine]

Thank you everyone for the suggestions! 

[Mango Polo]

Valdor Gold, now that GW is selling it again.

 

It's a very pale, white gold that still is still recognizably gold.