Powder metal paint - gold metallic

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Hello,

I am trying to make a photorealistic table - the geometry itself is okay, but the legs should be painted with gold powder-like paint, and it always looks unrealistic when I render it.

The following link will take you to the kind of effect I need.

http://www.powerpointhintergrund.com/uploads/gold-background-19.jpg

The one difference is that I only need the powder/dust texture, the larger, paintbrush strokes are unnecessary.

Currently I have the material setup procedurally as follows (Warm yellow colour, 0.5 roughness, 0.9 metallic, normal map from noise)

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I tried playing around with the settings but didn’t find anything that looks realistic. Even combined orange with yellow under fresnel but it doesn’t look realistic. Any comments welcome.

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Thank you.

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the thing about metals is, what you see is really a reflected light off of surface geometry

& all you need is to add surface imperfections to the material / shader (noise, dirt, bump, normals, AO…) and IBL (image based lighting / environmental lighting) using either HDRIs for the World (indoor @ HDRI haven) or more intricate, alike studio, lighting set (Lamps).