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black under natural metal finish; painting
Topic Started: Sep 8 2012, 11:28 AM (554 Views)
plasticdownunder
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To the members, I'm newish to modeling after many decades away..

Have noticed on many build reviews of WW2 natural metal finished planes, that many people paint a gloss or semi gloss black as an " undercoat" before the natural metal paint is applied, why is this so?..I only brush paint is it worth it?



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InchHigh
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The simple answer is some metalic paint manufacturers recommend it because their paints are engineered to work that way.

I use Alclad II laquers, they make a black, a light grey, and a white primer to use as basecoats. They form an extremely good bond and are quite thin. There is a build thread in the archives from a little less than a year ago on the AMT / Ertl B-35 kit, in it I have linked an article on Alclad which gives a really good explaination of laquers and their application.

Alclad is intended for airbrushing, so it might not be your best choice for brush application.
Jeff

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peebeep
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Gloss black is usually recommended to use under high shine finishes for giving 'depth' to the top coat. I'm not sure if there's any advantage for brush painting, I used to favour silver/metallic paints brushed over grey primer.

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walrus
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A black basecoat will darken the finish of the metal when brush painting.
So it can be useful if you need to darken some panels.

Sounds ridiculously obvious :rolleyes:

I have just experimented with painting some parts Citadel Mithral Silver over Chaos Black, but then had to over paint to bring the tone up enough to sit well with the rest of the airframe.
Paul from Birmingham, UK
Now living in Barnsley.
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