The next stage is the Metal Madness stage. There is a lot of gold on the model. I spent some time wondering whether I should attempt to use the Non-Metallic Metal technique on the model or not. Since I'd never done it before, it meant watching some videos to find out what was involved. Looks good, but I didn't have the time to learn it, get it done perfectly on this model, and finish it before Christmas. So, it was use metallic paints, old school style.
I used Army Painter's Greedy Gold as the base colour for all the metal pieces on the model. Once this was dry, I carefully applied Army Painter Strong Tone wash to all the gold areas. This gave the gold more depth, creating the shadows and giving more relief to the pieces. The next step was to apply some highlights to the gold. This was done by mixing some Army Painter Shining Silver with the Greedy Gold. These highlights were placed on the rims, upper surfaces and tops of the helmet.
The gold is shaded and highlighted.
The rear hopefully shows the shading and highlighting better.
Satisfied that the metal was done, I needed to bring some colour to it. At the moment it was just a big block of shiny gold. Looking at the various images of Ganesha, he has lots of jewels embedded in his helmet. This was my opportunity to add some points of colour.
I used red, white, blue and green to give the impression of gems and jewels placed around the helmet and the metal head guard, thing.
Jewels and gems now adorn the gold helmet and head thing.
I did forget about the jewels and gems located on the metal bands around the tusks and the arm bands. I would need to come back to these later.