Scale metal flake

[JET.]

I’ve discovered this paint recently and I think it’s quite a good in-scale silver metal flake base,  Mr.color GX208

heres an example of it with a clear pink over, outside In the sun it sparkles just like the 1/1 stuff

 

 

Edited October 7, 2023 by JET.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Most excellent. Thanks.   

[OldNYJim]

That looks great - you’re right, it’s a really nice in-scale flake.  

That candy pink is a nice shade too - didn’t realize they had a line of candies too!

[Street Rod]

Thanks for sharing this. That silver will be perfect for some projects I have in mind.

[JET.]

Here’s a quick video in the sun, should be even better once I sand and polish it 

 

 

[Oldriginal86]

The part leaning on the bottles almost appears to be anodized aluminum. Well done.

[Bills72sj]

Man that is a pretty color!

[karbuildr]

Excellent tip. Beautiful color.

[bobss396]

The old AMT line of spray paints had a few that were not called metallics, they were called a "luster" finish. I would call them close to a pearl. Pearl paints are more subtle and may be what you are shooting for.

[StevenGuthmiller]

I suppose it all boils down to what you're looking for.

If it's an "as close to scale as possible" affect that you're after, it's really hard to beat MCW paints.

 

Hobbyists have been in pursuit of in scale looking metallic paints for many many years, and they're still not always easy to find.

If you're looking for a heavily metallicized paint, much like what is depicted by the OP above, it's really not that hard.

 

If you want something as close as possible to a truly in scale metallic paint, it's much more difficult.

As with a 1:1 vehicle, unless it's some sort of custom with what is often referred to as "bass boat" metallic paint, you should not be able to pick out individual metallic particles in the paint even fairly close up.

If you walk out to your garage, and view your 1:1 vehicle, see how close you have to get before you can make out the particles in the metallic paint.

 

 

I estimated that depending on the paint, you don't begin to see these particles individually until you're at least as close as possibly 2 feet from the surface.

That translates into your eyeball being less than an inch away from the models surface at 1/25th scale before the particles become apparent.

 

I know, that makes correctly sized metallics a near impossibility in scale, but some of the paint producers do as well as can be expected.

One of these is MCW.

Not every color is spot on.

Some appear to have more, and heavier metallic than others, but I like to use this example of how a 1/25th scale metallic paint "should" look whenever this subject comes up.

 

Believe it or not, this 1958 Chevy Impala is painted in #932 "Cay Coral Poly" by MCW.

It is a metallic paint, but it's nearly impossible to pick out the individual particles, no matter how close.

But it still has that nice metallic sheen that would be evident when viewing a vehicle painted with metallic paint in 1/25th scale, if the paint were truly "in scale".

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

 

 

 

 

[JET.]

I was referring to metal flake.. as in show cars and hot rods.  A metal flake base that you spray candy colors over..

Not metallic paint 

Edited October 23, 2023 by JET.

[StevenGuthmiller]

3 hours ago, JET. said:

I was referring to metal flake.. as in show cars and hot rods.  A metal flake base that you spray candy colors over..

Not metallic paint 

Okay, so then you are talking about the “bass boat” look.

That’s very easy to replicate.

A metallic silver touch up paint from Duplicolor will act in exactly the same capacity, as will any number of metallic silvers from a variety of other manufacturers.

Metallic silver paints with large metallic particles are by no means difficult to find.

 

 

 

Steve

[JET.]

43 minutes ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

Okay, so then you are talking about the “bass boat” look.

That’s very easy to replicate.

A metallic silver touch up paint from Duplicolor will act in exactly the same capacity, as will any number of metallic silvers from a variety of other manufacturers.

Metallic silver paints with large metallic particles are by no means difficult to find.

 

 

 

Steve

lol yes “large” they are to large for 1/25 scale is what I’m trying to show here this paint is perfectly in scale for this type of look.

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[StevenGuthmiller]

32 minutes ago, JET. said:

lol yes “large” they are to large for 1/25 scale is what I’m trying to show here this paint is perfectly in scale for this type of look.

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I guess my thought is that a heavily metallic paint job like this is by definition a “custom” paint job.

There are no norms or standards for the size of the metallics to be used, so everything is fair game.

In other words, there really is nothing that would be “correct” for 1/25th scale.

It’s all up to individual interpretation.

 

 

 

Steve

[James2]

On 10/7/2023 at 11:04 AM, JET. said:

Here’s a quick video in the sun, should be even better once I sand and polish it 

My Movie 23.mov 47.23 MB · 10 downloads  

 

I'd like to know the name of the artist for the music in that video and yes the paint looks great!

[JET.]

1 hour ago, James2 said:

I'd like to know the name of the artist for the music in that video and yes the paint looks great!

lol, it’s just the free music in the iMovie app, called “high noon” by Patric warren 

[Roadrunner]

Certainly a lot of low riders and such are painted with large flake. I tend to really like Tamiya metallics a lot.

[Bugatti Fan]

I would think that most automotive metallics in aerosol form would give a scaled down metal flake effect.

The Alclad candies over craft aerosol gold, silver, bronze and copper metallics could yield some interesting metal flake effects too.

Edited October 25, 2023 by Bugatti Fan

[stitchdup]

if your mettalics are too big looking on your models there is a fix. I pretty much only use duplicolour spray cans but most of the particles are just a bit too big and look more like glitter than metalflakes or mettalics. When this happens I use tamiya clear pearl over the duplicolour to knock the glitter effect down a touch. It mutes the colour a little thouch on some colours that can be a bonus. While tamiya call it clear pearl its more of a transparent pale grey when its used (the opposite effect of the clear smoke many of us use on kit chrome). If you do use tamiya over duplicolour give it an extra day before and after to gas out before moving onto clear or the clear will wrinkle

[Mr mopar]

I Have order this paint so i can do some show rods with it !