[Model] Favorite Metallic Paints?

"Jim Williams" <jwilliams53 DeleteThis @cinci.rr.com> wrote in message
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>I have heard that the Vallejo metallics aren't that hot. I always liked
>the
> Ral Partha/ Iron Wind paints. The GW stuff isn't all that bad.

No, the GW metallic isn't bad (some of their regular colors are pretty sucky
though) but I hate the GW paint pots. The Vallejo eyedroppers are spoiling
me. But I too have heard that the Vallejo metallic aren't so great which is
why I'll just pick up one or two to try out. Is Ral Partha paint still
available? I have 8 pots of their paint I purchased in the mid-90s.
Surprisingly only 2 have dried up.


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In article <yOWdnSTEDfmIUGnZnZ2dnUVZ_q6dnZ2d.RemoveThis@comcast.com>,
askmeforname.RemoveThis@vodafone.it says...
>
> So over the last year or so I've been gradually replacing my old paints with
> Vallejo paints, which I love, but I've been hanging onto and nursing along
> my old pots of GW metallic because I still like them. But I just can't
> stand the terrible GW paint pots any more. Since most of them are almost
> gone anyways I figure rather than transferring the paint to eyedropper style
> bottles it's time to try a different brand of metallic. I'll probably head
> over to the local gaming store sometime this week and pick up a bottle or
> two of Vallejo Game Color metallic to try out but I was just wondering what
> metallic paint other people like.
>
> So what's your favorite brand for metallic paints?
>

Depends on the color and effect I'm going for. I do use GW's gold
and chainmail for really bright metallics occasionally, or as a final
color layer. Otherwise I tend to use Tamiya & Folkart mainly.

From Tamiya I go with 'Metallic Grey' (bright silver) XE-56 and my
favorite is 'Gun Metal' (a nice non 'day-glow' metallic gray) X-10. Gun
Metal sees a lot of use over black as a drybrush coat for all manner of
metal objects on my minis and is a personal favorite of mine. In
addition I like their 'Dark Copper' XF-28 and particularly their
'Copper' XF-6 which is excellent. In addition, I use their 'Hull Red'
XF-9 a lot as well. It's not a metallic color per-say, but thinned down
with water, it makes an ideal 'old rust stain' base coat. If you want
fresh looking rust too - just paint some brighter orange over the top
and Bob's your Uncle.

When it comes to other metallics - Folkart acrylic brand metallics (I
get mine from Wal-Mart the evil empire) really surprised me. I tried
them expecting more than not to dislike them. Instead I was pleasantly
suprised to the contrary.

Probably my #1 favorite is '666 Metallic Antique Copper' which I find
ideal for that 'heated metal' look, and as an undercoat / basecoat on
'old metal' surfaces. I drybrush it over other metallics when I want
the heated metal look - like on the exhaust pipes on a dread or the
business end of a multi-melta. Otherwise I use it as a first coat over
black followed by lighter coats of other colors when I want the 'aged
metal' look. In addition I use their '664 Metallic Copper' along with
'658 Metallic Antique Gold' a good bit as well. I'm not that fond of
their regular gold color (Hence GW's still sees a bit of use) nor of
their '676 Metallic Inca Gold' (which I find rather pastel in
appearance). FolkArt's '662 Metallic Silver Sterling' is also good and
excellent in terms of price if you have large surfaces you want to paint
a shiny metal color. And all being acrylic, they can be mixed and
blended with other acrylic paints (metallic or otherwise) to form
additional blends.

Hope that helps,

Myrmidon


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Between saving the world and having a spot of tea Jim Williams said

> I have heard that the Vallejo metallics aren't that hot. I always
> liked the Ral Partha/ Iron Wind paints. The GW stuff isn't all that
> bad.

Vallejo metallics aren't bad but like Jim says the old RP metallics were
excellent. If I needed metallics I'd probably buy more Vallejo. I've also
been tossing up whether I buy any of their model colour wood grain paints.

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smithdoerr wrote:
> So what's your favorite brand for metallic paints?

Citadel Colour.

I'm down to Tin Bitz, Boltgun, and Silver, yet still haven't bothered to
break open my Vallejo metallics yet.

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Thanks for all the replies. The local store only had GW and Vallejo so I
picked up a bottle of Vallejo Gunmetal to try out and a bottle of Metallic
Medium (metallic paint with no pigments) to play around with.


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"Myrmidon" <Imnot.RemoveThis@home.com> wrote in message
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> In article <vaqdnUHMLYD8zmrZnZ2dnUVZ_oSdnZ2d.RemoveThis@comcast.com>,
> askmeforname.RemoveThis@vodafone.it says...
>>
>>
>> Thanks for all the replies. The local store only had GW and Vallejo so I
>> picked up a bottle of Vallejo Gunmetal to try out and a bottle of
>> Metallic
>> Medium (metallic paint with no pigments) to play around with.
>
> Ok, I'll bite - how do you have paint without pigment? Medium is
> generally the binder (and other materials such as anti-clumping agents)
> that the pigment(s) are suspended in. In this case, wouldn't the
> metallic particles in fact be the paint pigment?

I dunno, I just know that the metallic medium tastes the same as my other
metallics but don't leave no colored stain on my teeth.

Anyhow, it only has the metal bits suspended in it which mostly just reflect
and diffuse the light rather than mostly absorbing and reflecting some of
the light spectrum like colored pigments do. Whether or not this still
makes them pigments I don't know. I guess I should have said "no COLORED
pigments" so you artsy fartsy types would get all mad at me and make me
cry!!1one!1!!!11sob!!11!


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-smithdoerr
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smithdoerr <askmeforname.TakeThisOut@vodafone.it> wrote:
> So what's your favorite brand for metallic paints?

For stuff like gunmetal and the like, I've been using Vallejo, since I had
to replace all my early 90's Citadel paints (as well as the various other
paints from the 80's and 90's). Back in the late 80's and early 90's I
rather liked Armory for metallic paints.

Last December I got hauled off to the after Christmas sale at the local
craft store (JoAnn's), and they had some fascinating looking sets of
metallic paints. IIRC, they were in bottles simular to the Vallejo paints.
I forget the brand, but I've been meaning for months to go back and pick up
a set to try. Of course it's been since before Christmas since I last had
time to paint. :^(

Zane
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Myrmidon wrote:
> In article <yOWdnSTEDfmIUGnZnZ2dnUVZ_q6dnZ2d DeleteThis @comcast.com>,
> askmeforname DeleteThis @vodafone.it says...
>
>>So over the last year or so I've been gradually replacing my old paints with
>>Vallejo paints, which I love, but I've been hanging onto and nursing along
>>my old pots of GW metallic because I still like them. But I just can't
>>stand the terrible GW paint pots any more. Since most of them are almost
>>gone anyways I figure rather than transferring the paint to eyedropper style
>>bottles it's time to try a different brand of metallic. I'll probably head
>>over to the local gaming store sometime this week and pick up a bottle or
>>two of Vallejo Game Color metallic to try out but I was just wondering what
>>metallic paint other people like.
>>
>>So what's your favorite brand for metallic paints?
>>
>
>
> Depends on the color and effect I'm going for. I do use GW's gold
> and chainmail for really bright metallics occasionally, or as a final
> color layer. Otherwise I tend to use Tamiya & Folkart mainly.
>
> From Tamiya I go with 'Metallic Grey' (bright silver) XE-56 and my
> favorite is 'Gun Metal' (a nice non 'day-glow' metallic gray) X-10.

Ah I was looking for a metallic for my Tau. Perfect! I love Tamiya paints.

Joe
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