Burnished Gold & Rich Blue: Elves of the Last Alliance the Easy Way [How I Paint Things]

Whether you're painting Elves for D&D, Pathfinder, ornate city guards or NPCs for just about any game you can imagine, or a handful of the Last Alliance to protect all Middle Earth from the depredations of a great evil... painting burnished golden armour and cloaks needn't be difficult.

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00:00 - Intro
00:57 - Painting Worn Gold Armour
04:50 - More Basecoats
10:44 - Highlights
13:52 - Painting Gems
16:24 - All Done!

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THE BASE: Stirland Mud, drybrush heavily Golgfag Brown, then Tyrant Skull. Static grass and tufts to taste, paint base rim in Rhinox Hide or Dryad Bark.

PAINTS USED:

PRIMERS:
Retributor Armour (Citadel Spray)

CITADEL:
Retributor Armour (Base)
Agrax Earthshade (Shade)
Sigmarite (Dry)
Necron Compound (Dry)
Macragge Blue (Base)
Celestra Grey (Base)
The Fang (Base)
Iron Hands Steel (Base)
Stormfang (Dry)
Russ Grey (Layer)
Calgar Blue (Layer)
Ulthuan Grey (Layer)
Dawnstone (Layer)
Hoeth Blue (Layer)
Fenrisian Grey (Layer)
White Scar (Layer)

VALLEJO:
Black Grey (or Citadel Corvus Black)
Beige Brown
Chrome (Vallejo Model Air Metallic)

VARNISHES:
Vallejo Matt Varnish Spray
'Ardcoat (Citadel Technical)