Gold Armour: The golden armour is first base coated with a 2:1 mix of Citadel, Balor Brown and Citadel, Mournfang Brown. Over a black undercoat this will take 3-4 even coats to get good coverage. You need this base coat to be smooth so water down the paints if necessary and take your time. Once done you need to plan your highlight placement, there are lots of great videos on You Tube and Patreon so I wont go into too much detail on that here. The first highlight is pure Balor Brown, this can cover a large area of the armour, roughly 50%. Next begin gradually adding Vallejo, White Sands to the Balor Brown to create lighter and lighter highlights. This can be done by eye just make sure the change from one highlight to the next isn’t too obvious. Your paint should be thinned for this stage and each highlight should require 2-3 coats to create a smooth transition. The last highlight should be pure White Sands and places only at the point where the light would strike the armour. Then use White Sands to edge highlight all the armour. For the shadow we start with Mournfang Brown watered down to glaze consistency. This is then glazed into all the areas of shadow. Then repeat the process but this time use Rhinox Hide, because the paint is thinned you can build up the shadow in multiple coats allowing you to control the process and get nice smooth transitions from dark to light. If you keep all the colours on your wet palette you can make corrections and necessary.