hi, I'm buissy with my dio (Omaha beach bunker). i'm now in the stage that I had to model the barbed wire, but a matelic wire at the beach isn't real, so how do I paint my barbed wire rusty??? O, and before I forget, the scale is 1/6. Thanks guys

Laurie

Barbed wire tends not to be very orange when it gets exposed to the elements, nor does it have a lot of texture you'd see in anything but real life. My standby exposed metal favorite is ModelMaster Burnt Iron metalizer. It has a light reddish tint, but generally just looks like exposed metal. Give it a wash of dark gray/black then maybe just the lightest, very lightest dark anondized gray, also from MM.

I usually paint it dark grey (Tamiya's German grey) and then give it a light wash of burnt umber mixed in with orange to give it a hint of rust.

On www.modelhut.com there is a very good article bout that. You should check that.

hi, thanks Marty for your help, i'm now finished.

Laurie

i always use revell 83 for rust