Afternoon everyone. I am in the process of preparing my build for a NMF finish. I am going to be using Alclad II Aluminum for the first color. What I am trying to figure out is what other color should I use to vary the panels. Duraluminum, white aluminum, hot pink something else?
Their aluminum colors are all a bit of a dull shine. Check your references and see if some spots are more shiny than others. If so, use the polished or airframe aluminum colors, as they’re a bit more reflective. All of them are excellent, so there’s really no wrong choice, it more or less a matter of where you’re needing what effect to shine through. Hope this helps.
There are three aluminum colors- Polished Aluminum, Aluminum, and Weathered or White Aluminum. They are somewhat self explanatory. Not as obvious is that you can vary the gloss and color a bit merely by how thick of a coat you put down. This is particularly true with the Polished Aluminum. Put down in a very thin coat over a high gloss black, it will look like a squadron or wing commanders plane, but if you keep building up a thicker coat, it will begin to look more dull and weathered. So by combining these colors, and varying the thickness, you can really create a lot of variation.
You can create even more variation by using undercoats of several colors instead of the gloss black.