Inter-war Biplanes - siver airframe v silver engine cowling

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Inter-war Biplanes - siver airframe v silver engine cowling

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In a hobby shop I spotted Rub-'n'-Buff for £6.

Surely a good finish can be achieved, differentiating between the silver of the airframe and the silver of the polished engine cowling with the 3 Humbrol versions of silver enamel on offer?

It's 1/72 and yes, I have an airbrush. I have never used acrylic before.
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CementNotGlue wrote:In a hobby shop I spotted Rub-'n'-Buff for £6.

Surely a good finish can be achieved, differentiating between the silver of the airframe and the silver of the polished engine cowling with the 3 Humbrol versions of silver enamel on offer?

It's 1/72 and yes, I have an airbrush. I have never used acrylic before.
I usually mix a little medium sea grey into aluminium for the airframe, and use neat aluminium for the engine. I use Vallejo Air acrylics. The grey just dulls down the aluminium a little to give a contrast.
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I used to use R&B quite a bit. It gives a good finish but it likes to be the last thing you put on a model. It doesn't like having tape put over it to mask another color, and it can react in unpredictable ways to clear overcoats. It is also never quite done buffing off the model and a bit will come off on your hands forever if you handle it. Used with those parameters in mind it can look quite nice. However, with so many different metal finishes out there I have not used it for quite a few years.

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Rub and Buff was all the rage in the 1970s. I remember Ray Rimmell using it a lot in his builds in Scale Models and the part work "!Wings" - which I still have.

It has been superseded by much better alternatives since those days.
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I always use Citadel Mithril Silver for interwar fabric, and usually Metalcote Polished Aluminium for the metal bits. Just remember to check your references... some of those highly polished cowls we see today were actually painted grey back in the day...

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