Once again, I have to come over to this side of the room for help from you automobile gentlemen (I’m not a girl, but I know we have no gentlemen on aircraft side). Problem is this: I was building my occasional car kit and it required a finish similar to the famous Porsche silver. I’m pretty skilled at airbrushing elaborate camouflage schemes, but when it comes to these deep, lustrous auto finishes my skills are worthless. Long story short, I decided to use a spray can since it was one color, large area. MM German Silver went on thick, very transluscent and generally unworkable in every way. I didn’t spray too close, I shook it violently for a good while, and I don’t know why it has no “body” to the color – just a few flakes of silver pigment – or why it comes out as thick as most clear topcoats in bottle. What should I have done for a base coat? What should I do period? Thanks.
Tom
I would go for a Tamiya TS-17 silver spray can and after that clear coat it so it can be polished out properly. As a base coat I would use white or grey from the same range of colors as I did on my group build Mercedes. Altough I have to start over with the top coat on that one due to dust particles. The paint itself is very easy to work with and leaves nothing else to wish for.
Niclas
Tamiya sprays rule the roost!! Well, that’s just my 2c… I have used MM can before - gunmetal metalizer to be exact. It was shocking - maybe I did something wrong, but the finished was very “patchy” - no even spread of the “flakes”.
TS17 will do great for a silver job - I used it on a McLaren a while ago. Just build it up gently and you won’t be disappointed. Same for all Tamiya metallic finished paints, for that matter…
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TS17 has never let me down. I also recommend a white or light grey base (primer) coat first, but its not essential if the plastic is already light coloured.
[#ditto] from me also, in fact I choose the tamiya sprays over airbrushing any day (that’s just my opinion though). Once you learn how to use the Tamiya sprays from the can the finish you can achieve vs. the hassle of cleaning the airbrush… Tamiya sprays finish first in my book. But like everyone is saying, light mist coats first and let them dry between coats before you lay down any wet coats. Otherwise, without the mist coats, every coat of paint will run away from ridges and edges and pool up in the low spots.
I used Testores MM German silver on my 66 Riviera, no problems. I used Duplicolor primer, and airbrushed the silver on in light coats untill I built up the color I desired. It is possible you got a bad can as well. If ya want to yahoo im me, I can show you some pics, click on the icon on my post, or I am chopperlover2003 on it.
Lee