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AFV Painting & Weathering
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reflecting agent...... what is it?.....
bronzey
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Posted: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 08:55 AM UTC
Guys,

Ok im sure this is a daft question but, I got myself the Life Colour track painting and weathering set and it arrived this morning, great looking paints and its my first chance to use pigments, it comes with 3 pigments, dry dust, damp dust and 'reflecting agent'. Well I feel stupid as hell as I have no idea what its for! Lol I havnt seen it mentioned on any build logs or mentioned in any media I've looked at. If someone could point me in the right direction it would be lovely lol

Bronzey
sfcgainey
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Posted: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 09:31 AM UTC
I found this:

http://aeroscale.kitmaker.net/review/6828

sounds pretty cool.

Let us know how it turns out...

bronzey
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Posted: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 09:41 AM UTC
Erm ok, sounds really neat, well I think im going to have to have abit of a play around, I got a LAV 25 hull that I been using to practice with so will have to see what happens, at first I thought it may be used to make the 'dust' look more like wet mud, we will see what happens lol
joegrafton
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Posted: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - 02:22 AM UTC
Alex,
I have reflecting agent in the Lifecolor weapons paint set.
You mix in a little reflecting agent with the colour you wish your weapons (or any metal) to be, wait for it to dry & then brush over the the piece with a stiff dry brush. You get a very nice metallic finish.
I hope this helps.

Joe.
bronzey
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Posted: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - 02:35 AM UTC
aahhh ok joe cheers, was going to have a play with it today but got stuck into my missile tank and rusting/weathering it, sounds like it can be very useful, im sure i can find plenty of uses for it.
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