How would you mix this???

[Tim Marlow]

Dave mate, your disposable pipettes are graduated....just use 1.5 mL white, 0.4 mL orange and 0.1 mL silver...this will be 15 big divisions, 4 big divisions, and 1 big division......to fill them, cut the bulb end off of an old bulb pipette and use it as a pipette filler on the disposables....for the silver I would recommend overfilling and then dispensing the correct amount......probably about 1 drip....

[Dave Ward]

Tim,
I think I'll use the pipettes the way I was taught to use them - I used them for the old technique of paper chromotography. This was used to assess the condition of used lubricating oil - very crude by today's standards - but effective when you didn't have any expensive test gear, and you were far from a laboratory ( we used to measure oil viscosity, with a piece of kit that looked like it was given away with cornflake packets! ) One of the lost techniques swallowed by progress..................
Dave

[Tim Marlow]

If you mean mouth pipetting, then be aware that 2 mL pipettes can shoot badly if they get air bubbles in the feed stream...if that happens it won’t just be the technique that will be swallowed :flushed:
I was also taught mouth pippetting over forty years ago, and, to be honest, think it still gives far more control than using a pipette filler, so it’s probably what I would do as well.....I still used to occasionally use it at work when no one was looking....

[flyjoe180]

There's a build online where someone has used an enamel nail varnish that matches the colour... good luck Dave.

[Dave Ward]

The water based acrylics are supposed to be non-toxic ( I'm NOT going to try that out ), I would think twice about lacquer - or any solvent.
Nail Polish? -that's a new one to me - I can see how the pearl effect can give the desired result, but they're all enamel based, so I shan't be trying that!
Dave

[Guest]

You could try the method I used for my recent F-16: spray the metallic orange areas with a metal paint, then add clear orange over the top of it. OK, mine turned out too dark, but doing a few test pieces should probably show you how far to thin the paint to get the shade you need.

[Dave Ward]

It's such a pale shade of metallic orange, that I thought it was white! Mixing is the only way I can can see of giving a consistent finish, overlaying transparent paint on such a large area would be tricky...........
Dave

[Ian M]

Maybe a visit to a car paint rattle can place could turn out a colour that can be used 'out the can'?

[Guest]

overlaying transparent paint on such a large area would be tricky...........

I found that to be fairly easy, surprisingly so even, once I realised that it needed a thicker coat than I had originally used. Of course, that also makes it darker, and as you say it needs to be a very light shade in your case. The Revell mix is probably your best bet, unless you want to experiment with paints until you get something that looks right.