The
piece below is owned by me, I got an unpainted white and covered it in Palladium*
metal leaf
*Palladium
(pal·la·di·um)
is a precious metal from the Platinum group, I really wanted to use my favourite
metal, Platinum
but it became hard to find any due to production problems at the time I
wanted it, so I was going to try silver leaf but silver tarnishes and needs
a protective coat which I didn't want to do because I may as well have spray
painted it with chrome paint instead! I tried white gold leaf but that was a pig to work with so
I had Palladium recommended to me which is more expensive than the white gold or
silver but not as expensive as Platinum so I tried it and found it to be much
better to work with than the white gold and is a much better colour.
Next
time I use metal leaf though, I will use it on something without so much fine
detail because this took a lot of work and much cursing for such a small piece...