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gold metallic spray is pretty dull so sorry dude u use an airbrush for that kinda shiny gold

Just airbrushing alone won’t give you effect you want. Metallic spray paints also don’t give you an actual metal finish, just a sparkly one. What you want is something similar to Krylon’s premium series, or any other series of paints that actually give you the metal sheen, without sparkly bits thrown in.

There are two ways to go about it….
#1- If there aren’t a lot of parts that need to be painted, a more cost effective way is to buy the Valleo Liquid Metal set. This set consists of 4 different paints; Silver, Bronze, Old Gold and Gold. The Old Gold is a color between Gold and Bronze. These can only be painted with a brush. And unlike other paints from Valleo, these are alcohol based. Therefor the brushes need to be cleaned with Isopropanol Alcohol!!! If yo should use water or Windex, the metal flakes in the paint will rust! And like with all metallic paints, you’ll need an gloss black undercoat. Preferably enamel. Or a lacquer based paint. If you use a water or alcohol based paint, the Valleo Liquid Metal will eat through it. Or you’d have to use a lacquer or enamel based gloss coat on top of the water or alcohol based paint. There is a way of doing this without the lacquer based gloss coat eating through it. If you should choose this option, just drop us a post in this section, and someone or me will give you a tutorial on this. If you wonder how the Valleo Liquid Gold will look, just look it up on YouTube. There is a woman who has a spoon test of the paints on it.
#2- Spray a very shiny silver on top of a black gloss coat. The finer the metal flakes in the paint are, the better. If you are able to find a good chrome spray can, that is thé way to go. Then use a clear yellow on top of that. I believe Tamiya makes spray cans in this “color”. The more coats you spray on top, the darker it becomes. Please kee that in mind! This is almost the way Bandai makes their gold. What they do is use a mix of 90 percent clear yellow and 10 percent clear orange. But since you don’t have an airbrush, this isn’t feasible…
In my profile, I have some pictures of the Nu Ver. Ka. with the yellow parts painted “gold”. I didn’t have an airbrush at that time, so I sprayed a silver and hand painted clear yellow on top of that. You’re welcome to take a look to see if it’s what you are looking for. In the section ‘What are you building’ I have some pictures of the MG Destiny’s head with the V-fin on and some pictures of the V-fin itself. This is done by using an airbrush, first brushing a black gloss, then chrome by Alclad and then the recommended mix of clear yellow and orange. If you like, take a look, this will give you an idea of how it will look if you’d find a good chrome spray can and use a clear yellow spray can.
Hope this helps you out a bit. Good luck with it