modern metallics
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modern metallics
Ages ago, when I painted something gold or silver, it came out all bright and shiny. These days, with Humbrol, I don't seem to be able to get far past sand and grey with a small hint of metallism, and especially the gold is more brown than yellow. With Vallejo, I find the silver paint to be unuseable, and the gold barely, so that's no option either. For airbrush work I could use Alclad, but for more traditional hairy stick work, I'm stuck.
Does anyone here know of a better option for polished yellow metal and polished white metal?
Does anyone here know of a better option for polished yellow metal and polished white metal?
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Re: modern metallics
Tamiya acrylic metallics are pretty good Rob, as are Humbrol acrylics. The silvers benefit from a black u/c and I've used yellow under golds and bronze to good effect. They also buff up well with kitchen towel
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Re: modern metallics
I'll take Tamiya for a spin during the next round of experiments (Humbrol acrylics are just not available).iggie wrote:Tamiya acrylic metallics are pretty good Rob, as are Humbrol acrylics. The silvers benefit from a black u/c and I've used yellow under golds and bronze to good effect. They also buff up well with kitchen towel
Buffing, I fear, is out of the question though; I'm targetting fine details on figures, the sort of thing that has you worried it might break if you look at it too hard. Whatever paint I end up using, will have to do the trick right off the brush, and preferably without being too picky about what's underneath it (painting a minute detail once is hard enough, doing exactly the same twice with different colours is probably beyond me).
Re: modern metallics
You might try this:
http://ak-interactive.com/v2/?product=x ... -gold-30ml;
I've never tried the gold, but I've got several of the burnt metal/exhaust manifold kind of colours and they brush paint very well...
bestest,
M.
http://ak-interactive.com/v2/?product=x ... -gold-30ml;
I've never tried the gold, but I've got several of the burnt metal/exhaust manifold kind of colours and they brush paint very well...
bestest,
M.
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Re: modern metallics
If you're hairy-sticking Tamiya acrylics don't over brush them, one maybe two passes then let it dry completely or it starts to drag in clumps. It brushes better if you really thin it down but takes many, many coats to achieve coverage
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Hi Matt, what's the brush clean up? Will DIY white spirit work?mattbacon wrote:You might try this:
http://ak-interactive.com/v2/?product=x ... -gold-30ml;
I've never tried the gold, but I've got several of the burnt metal/exhaust manifold kind of colours and they brush paint very well...
bestest,
M.
Best wishes
Jim
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Re: modern metallics
IIRC it's just water. I think they are acrylics, just with very fine pigments...
I'll check this evening.
bestest,
m.
I'll check this evening.
bestest,
m.
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Re: modern metallics
I've found the Citadel metallics to be excellent for small detail work with a brush.. haven't used their golds though. Gehenna's Gold is the new version of Shining Gold and Auric Armour has replaced Burnished Gold. They do need a good old stir first.
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Re: modern metallics
Have you tried the Vallejo Air metallics Rob? These are much better than the Model Colour ones, and brush extremely well. They are my standard choice.
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Nope. The mere fact that they're rather explicitly not intended for normal brushes ensured that I didn't even consider that range; I want to be able to do any touch-up after airbrushing from the exact same bottle/jar of paint, so anything pre-thinned for airbrush is excluded from even testing. (I make an exception for metallisers, so the metallics might have made it in - but that would have been too logical). Real quirky that they work so well of the traditional brush.AndrewR wrote:Have you tried the Vallejo Air metallics Rob? These are much better than the Model Colour ones, and brush extremely well. They are my standard choice.
Added to the test list, along with the citadels (both easily available brands around here).
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I was surprised how good they were when I tried brushing them too!rob_van_riel wrote:Nope. The mere fact that they're rather explicitly not intended for normal brushes ensured that I didn't even consider that range; I want to be able to do any touch-up after airbrushing from the exact same bottle/jar of paint, so anything pre-thinned for airbrush is excluded from even testing. (I make an exception for metallisers, so the metallics might have made it in - but that would have been too logical). Real quirky that they work so well of the traditional brush.AndrewR wrote:Have you tried the Vallejo Air metallics Rob? These are much better than the Model Colour ones, and brush extremely well. They are my standard choice.
Added to the test list, along with the citadels (both easily available brands around here).
BTW Vallejo now makes a dedicated metallic range. I have not tried brushing these, but I suspect they will not work well.
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Following some of the recommendations here, I checked out Tamiya and Vallejo air. Peeking through the bottom of the bottles, Tamiya seemed a closer match to what I wanted, so I bought a bottle of "Chrome silver" and "Gold leaf" for testing. Both look spot on where colour is concerned, at least on the toothpick I used for stirring the paints, but I think the gold will take some testing to see how it behaves in action.