Pafetik Bazerkas Twisted
WTF. Am I trying too hard?
Applying some of citadels silly pot gold way back in august didnt feel good enough. Reminded me of a 70’s glitter transfer and almost too yellow. So decided to order a few vellego metal colours.
Just doesnt feel like gold. Meh...Unfortunately my order was boken into 2 shippments. Then Australia post had delays. I finally received the first half of my order on Friday, over a month later. Relief it contained the gold. But then I checked it out. ….Not very gold and I’m not very happy.
The pic below shows the vellego silver to the left, the delivered vellego gold in the middle and what I created with vellego gold, citadel gold, and a bit of tamyia clear orange. only one of these looks vaguely gold. My brain is full of expletives. I’d like to fill my blog with fun and great moments but this what happens sometimes I guess.
Really shiny metal is hard to get. Maybe outside the hobby there are more gold paints that are the way you want them to be? Maybe one of these car touch up things for small scratches has the right shine?
Looks like you’ve figured out something that works for you. Three other options that I’ve used to reasonable success: 1. Start with a dark bronze and highlight up using copper and eventually golds (I use all Vallejo). I find the paints labeled gold are often too pale/silvery to show up well. 2. Rub & Buff (though this may be called something else in Australia): this would be the gold standard (pun intended) but it can be really tough to buff something as small and fragile as a resin mini 3. Bright silver with a yellow ink over the top. This… Read more »