Anyway, after looking into gold paints for a while i discovered a thread on some random movie props site where a guy had made his own c3po costume. The gold paint he used was very convincing and turned out to be plasticote brilliant metallic
![daumenhoch :daumenhoch:](http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/Smileys/smilies/daumenhoch.gif)
The guy added a distressed finish on top of the plasticote
![](http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v689/zorg-industries/dontuse.jpg)