What colors did you use on Goldie? Been hesitant to get him painted without Sorastro's help but I'm getting impatient. Yours looks great.

What colors did you use on Goldie? Been hesitant to get him painted without Sorastro's help but I'm getting impatient. Yours looks great.

Thanks!

From memory, I painted C-3PO in the following way:

Black primer

Paint all gold areas (i.e. not the leg!) in Balthazar Bronze, I may have done a few coats for a strong base

Then paint all gold areas with Ghenna's gold ( probably more than a single coat in the larger areas like the chest plates)

Wash with Reikland Fleshshade (that is what gives the model a warmer, redder tone to the gold)

Highlight the raised areas with Auric Armour Gold

For the silver leg, I applied a few coats of Ironbreaker (the silver is difficult to get over the black primer)

Then wash with agrax earthshade

Re-apply Ironbreaker

Highlight with Runefang Steel

The only other area is the middle between the chest and legs which has exposed wiring. For that I tried to pick out a couple of the larger wires in Macragge Blue and Mephiston Red (you can just about see the red in the picture), then wash the whole region with nuln oil and then reapply a slightly lightened blue and red to re-assert the colours over the wash.

I hope that helps. Let me know how you get on with C-3PO yourself, I too was pretty worried about doing a model without having the safety net of a Sorastro tutorial but it worked out O.K.!

I would be interested if anyone has any opinions about C-3PO's eyes as I just left them but I'm sure there may be some clever way to add a light up yellow effect, perhaps a glaze?

EDIT: One other slight tip is to try to do the middle of the 'kneecap' area on the silver leg in gold, you may be able to notice this in the pictures. I think that this gives the effect of the silver leg being interlocked with the rest of the gold model as if the leg has been attached separately.

Can I just ask? What do you use for the base?

Is it gravel or small stones?

It's from a Citadel basing kit. Amongst other things the kit contains a pot of sand and a pot of small stones so I mixed the two together for texture. Once it's applied to the base I apply nuln oil and then highlight it with some white paint. I hope this helps!

Does anyone have any tips for taking better photos of models without buying any equipment? I only take photos for this thread so I don't want to invest. I use my phone camera (Samsung Galaxy).

Thanks!

P.S. I'm finishing Boba Fett today so pictures will be uploaded later on!

As promised, here is Boba Fett. He took quite a long time to paint but I think that the end result does his character justice.