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AFV Painting & Weathering
Answers to questions about the right paint scheme or tips for the right effect.
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Best gold color for ammo
lkoky
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England - East Anglia, United Kingdom
Joined: December 06, 2004
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Posted: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 07:00 PM UTC
Hi there,

Just want to know any suggestion for any particular make of gold paint you would used to paint bullet, ammo etc.

thanks
wampum
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Tekirdag, Turkey / Türkçe
Joined: August 21, 2002
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Posted: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 08:10 PM UTC
I use humbrol 54 brass for this . Humbrol 55 bronze also gives a nice finish.
Snowhand
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Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Joined: January 08, 2005
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Posted: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 08:32 PM UTC
Yep, brass ( humbrol 54 ) Bronze ( humbrol 55 ) and copper ( humbrol 12 ) are the ways to go.

Also good: humbrol Antique bronze ( 171 if I am not mistaken ).
Grypho
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New South Wales, Australia
Joined: May 27, 2005
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Posted: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 08:43 PM UTC
Hi

I have found Alclad II Pale Burnt Metal to be very good. Only drawback is it is fairly noxious...

HTH

Griffo
HeavyArty
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Florida, United States
Joined: May 16, 2002
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Posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 03:27 AM UTC
Testor's Model Master has a good brass color as well, #1782.
lkoky
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England - East Anglia, United Kingdom
Joined: December 06, 2004
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Posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 09:02 AM UTC
Is the paint from humbrol oil based?

So far I have only used acrylics paint from Tamiya.

If it is oil based what additional items I would need (brush, bursh cleaner etc)?

thanks.
Diablo
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Gelderland, Netherlands
Joined: February 01, 2004
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Posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 09:11 AM UTC
if you use tamiya maybe tamiya copper xf-6 is wurth trying..
mother
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New York, United States
Joined: January 29, 2004
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Posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 09:25 AM UTC
Model Masters has a Brass metalizer. #1417 It is lacquer based, they say airbrush only but I hand brush it with no problems.
Easy_Co
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England - South East, United Kingdom
Joined: September 11, 2002
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2005 - 06:10 AM UTC
You will need a bottle of white spirit to clean your brushes and thin your paint if needed, also leave the paint to dry overnight.
propboy44256
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Ohio, United States
Joined: November 20, 2002
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Posted: Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 01:02 AM UTC
I tried this with the aluminum plate version metalizer and had awful results.


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Model Masters has a Brass metalizer. #1417 It is lacquer based, they say airbrush only but I hand brush it with no problems.
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