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Question about metal colors
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Anonymous
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April 2003
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Question about metal colors
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Anonymous
on Monday, June 6, 2005 10:25 PM
You know, when you are outside, on a sunny day, and you see a man-hole cover, or a sewer grate.....
What color IS that? I can't tell. Looks like some kind of mutant dark-dark purple with some rust color thrown in. Almost a bluish.
When I do some city scenery, I know I want those things to look right.
Anybody have any ideas?
Rob
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orsonroy
Member since
March 2002
From: Elgin, IL
3,677 posts
Posted by
orsonroy
on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 8:37 AM
Look to the military modelers to get metallic colors right. There are several different versions of "gunmetal" that could work for manhole covers. I haven't gotten that far yet, but I'd probably just use dark grey as a base, with a wash of oily black and a drybrushing of burnt sienna.
Ray Breyer
Modeling the NKP's Peoria Division, circa 1943
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ndbprr
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September 2002
7,486 posts
Posted by
ndbprr
on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 10:32 AM
Manhole covers are cast iron or steel. They are painted black at the factory. If I were going to have one on a rialroad I think I would paint it rail brown and then add very thin layers of black until it gave a blackish hue to it
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