You can water gild with metal leaf. It's a little different to water gilding with gold. But you can get a good look especially if you are mixing it with oil gilding.
Gliding water, 4 parts water, 1 part isopropanol alcohol, a pinch of rabbit skin glue.

Water gilding tools video    • Basic water gilding tools  

UK
METAL LEAF (Imitation Gold Leaf)
https://www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk/go...

USA
METAL LEAF (Imitation Gold Leaf)
https://www.gildedplanet.com/imitatio...

Chapters
00:00 Intro
1:27 Different metal leaves
2:00 Water gilding
9:32 Burnishing
11:43 Oil gilding
12:21 End result

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