A good 'scale' metallic hobby paint.

[Ian M]

As the title suggests I am looking for a good Metallic type model paint. Airbrush able.
What have you used and can you show an example of it?
Colour not so important. It is more the effect I am after.

Other interest could be in pearl or candy type colours.

[Ian M]

Does any of the car/MC builders know what happens if you spray Tamiya Clear Pearl over their Red Mica?

[Gary MacKenzie]

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[Ian M]

Saw him test ALL the Tamiya Metallics. 30 mins of my life I will never get back... It was impossible to see the effect, so a waste of time.

[Andy T]

Does any of the car/MC builders know what happens if you spray Tamiya Clear Pearl over their Red Mica?

I've never tried it but I would imagine that tending towards pink since the pearl flakes would almost certainly be white (ish)

I'm not sure what kind of effect you're after but for something like the really deep red pearls that are popular at the moment (Mazda Soul Red Crystal being a good example) they generally start out with a salmon or orangy base coat, with a high metallic and red & gold pearl content. Over that goes a red tinted clear / candy layer(s) to bring out the "redness" whilst being transparent enough for light to penetrate through and reflect back off metallic / pearl / mica* underneath.

I think Zero Paints are popular over on the ISM forum where they do a lot of car work as they can match a lot of original car colours.


*While most people still use the term pearl, mica is more technically correct as the particles are overwhelmingly made from glass/ceramic these days, rather than the linings of sea shells.

[Stefee]

Hi Ian,

Whilst none of the following are pearl/mica finishes they might help.

All the finishes are over Ultimate Grey Primer and are all Tamiya acrylics.

The Porsche was mixed with XF11 plus various X gloss colours and overcoated with X22 to replicate Porsche Rosewood Metallic, I think the silver content is scale correct for a 1/25 model.

The spoons are all over the same primer, the dark blue is straight X13, all the others are Tamiya XF11 overcoats with their clear red, orange, yellow and blue (4 coats) then cleared with X22. I didn't have the clear green to try. The more coats of clear colours applied will darken the colour.

Very difficult to capture the amount of sparkle but there is more in real life.

Hope that helps.

Regards

Stefan

[yak face]

I can recommend the vallejo metal color range Ian , great finish , easy to use and quite resistant to handling / masking .Ive used them on all my recent NMF builds ( I say recent , probably going back a few years ) , much better than vallejo model air metallics. As for the other question , is it a candy apple effect youre after? You might recall a build I did a good few years back https://www.scale-models.co.uk/threa...tra-pics.9571/
this was a gold basecoat followed by several coats of tamiya clear red . I expect any range of paints would give the same result , just a transparent colour over a metallic ( silver/ gold even copper ) basecoat .

[John]

Ammo have brought out a range of car paints called Cobra https://www.scalemodelshop.co.uk/cobra-motor-paints/ ours are due in this week, there should be someone in the EU you can get them from.

[Ian M]

Ammo have brought out a range of car paints called Cobra

I'll have to keep an eye open for those. Thanks.

[JR]

Hi Ian,

Whilst none of the following are pearl/mica finishes they might help.

All the finishes are over Ultimate Grey Primer and are all Tamiya acrylics.

The Porsche was mixed with XF11 plus various X gloss colours and overcoated with X22 to replicate Porsche Rosewood Metallic, I think the silver content is scale correct for a 1/25 model.

The spoons are all over the same primer, the dark blue is straight X13, all the others are Tamiya XF11 overcoats with their clear red, orange, yellow and blue (4 coats) then cleared with X22. I didn't have the clear green to try. The more coats of clear colours applied will darken the colour.

Very difficult to capture the amount of sparkle but there is more in real life.

Hope that helps.

Regards

Stefan

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Beautiful finish Stefan , take the fence away and you would think it was real .

[Ian M]

The Porsche was mixed with XF11 plus various X gloss colours

Cracking finish on the plastic Porsche. Those spoons look good. The red is kind of what I am looking for, and the blues are good too. (not a fan of yellow lol).

[Gary MacKenzie]

[Ian M]

It's not Paint that looks like metal I am after. Just metallic paint. You know like what you paint cars with.

[Andy T]

Other interest could be in pearl or candy type colours.

I've just ordered some candy blue from Zero paints to test out for the truck GB. Will let you know how I get on when they arrive

[Ian M]

I've just ordered some candy blue from Zero paints to test out for the truck GB. Will let you know how I get on when they arrive

That's what I want it for too.