Recommendations for Metallic Paint (Brush Painting)

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Re: Recommendations for Metaalic Paint (Brush Painting)

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Medicman71 wrote:
Floki wrote:If your just doing small detail painting and not huge area of coverage then I like to use Vallejo for all hand brushing they got some nice metallic colors.
:hmm: I couldn't get the Vallejo Metal Colors to brush paint at all. It kept leaving streaks everywhere.
Mike this was painted by brush with Vallejo metal color

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Re: Recommendations for Metallic Paint (Brush Painting)

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Revell Aqua, Citadel or Humbrol enamel all make nice brushable metallics. I tend to avoid things like vallejo and, Hataka as imho those stupid dropper bottles never mix metallics properly.

Brush painted with Revell Aqua...

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Re: Recommendations for Metallic Paint (Brush Painting)

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I find Vallejo metallics to be ok, but I found they work better when used with one of those automatic shakers or an agitator is put in the bottle.

I recently found a brand called The Army Painter, and I love their gun metal paint. Hands down the best I have ever brushed with. I bought a set of more metallics by them, but haven't had to use them yet. I assume they will work just as well. Their non metallic colors are great too, I find the brands geared more for war gaming miniatures work the best for brushing based on my experience.
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Re: Recommendations for Metallic Paint (Brush Painting)

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I hose clamp a Vallejo bottle to a old blade with the teeth filed off and shake them up on my jigsaw.
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Re: Recommendations for Metallic Paint (Brush Painting)

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Amazon sells these “nail polish mixers” that fit hobby paints just right…

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Re: Recommendations for Metallic Paint (Brush Painting)

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Along the lines of the jigsaw idea; one friend of mine modified one to hold a bar clamp which then held a paint bottle. Shook them up well. He called it the Binford 6100 paint mixer. :giggles: Unfortunately, without a certain mod; it won't work on Vallejo paints.

I'll try to get a pic of it during the next Hobby Day.
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Re: Recommendations for Metallic Paint (Brush Painting)

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I was doing an inventory check of my paints and I found a brand new bottle of this...

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I can now answer my own question and confirm that the Testors Metallic Silver is the same as the Model Master Chrome Silver.
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Re: Recommendations for Metallic Paint (Brush Painting)

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Many, but not all, of the 1/4 oz. Testors square bottle paints are the same as certain Model Master colors. Let us know how the two colors compare please John.
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