aged copper color

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Painting and airbrushing
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Hello;

Anyone know how get an aged copper look. The engine on the sopwith pup has copper intakes and I need to get that tarnished copper look.

Thanks

Bill

2

My first thought would be to add a bit of a medium-dark brown to staight “copper”. Second thought, paint the copper, then drybrush with brown.

3

In addition to brown, already mentioned, copper may oxidize red or green (or a combination of two or all three. Yeah, washes will work as will dry brushing or even careful very thin airbrush coatings. Actually, a combination of the red and brown can give close to a rust color, but it must be just a subtle patina.

The green is usually a water caused patina, so for the engine the browns and reds should predominate- very little or no green.

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Thanks Guys I will do some tests.

Bill