I see all of these non metallic SG posts out there and thought I would do something a little different. I chose to paint mine with metallic paints. I only have around 3 hours of time into these, but I am really enjoying how they are turning out. My recipe is as follows:- base coat white
- mix a watery tin bits/shining gold mixture and paint all areas
- gryphonne sepia wash
- shining gold watered down on larger plates
- burnished gold on edges
- burnished gold + mithril silver on edges
That's all it has taken so far. I figured I had better document this since, I have two more boxes of these guys coming in!
Looks great to me!
ReplyDeleteI find alot of these SG in NNM look drab next to the real metallics.
Those look incredible! As a BA player I am subscribing!
ReplyDeleteReally nice work.
ReplyDeleteThe recipe looks nice and simple - next time I need to do a burnshed gold I will pull this out - cheers for sharing.
Pom
Amazing work.
ReplyDeleteI tried various simple (he, I have 25 to paint, making a Dante+SG army for fun) NNM recipes and wasn't satisfied. Your metallic way looks very interesting, I'll test that ASAP :-)
Amazing work! Sometimes I think we are living in parallel worlds because I am at about the same stage as you on these guys. I have been painting mine over a brown undercoat, with layers and layers of shining gold, yellow and purple washes, highlights with mithril silver and then more washes. It long and complicated but I haven't achieved the great results you have. This is such a simple method and it works better! Man, if only I had waited one more day before starting on mine.
ReplyDeleteI really like your work on these. The gold metallic looks quite good and convincing.
ReplyDeleteHey mate great work just wanna know when u say mix a watery tinbitz/shining gold mixture how watery should i go ?
ReplyDeleteThey look great!
ReplyDeleteThey look great!, and it also seems pretty easy to achieve this look. Thnx for sharing the steps to painting the armour.
ReplyDeleteWould u mind sharing laos how u painted the red parts? (shoulders, seals, cloths)