Recent content by Prassel

I've managed to make rather deep scratches/dents on a flat surface of a model... And it's supposed to be painted in silver metallic, so they will be incredbly visible. The scratches/dents are just deep enough that painting over them will not help. They cover pretty much all of the surface...

...wow. That made me understand something... I'm an idiot. The instructions for the model said "paint overall exterior light gray"... I didn't understand what it meant, and the color scheme didn't have any light grey on it. I was confused as to why the light gray was even included when there...

It's not the base showing through, made sure of that today. The colors turn much darker and warmer on the white plastic than on the grey. 196 for example looks almost white on the grey model, until it dries, then you can clearly see the cold, grey tint... It looks just like I want it. But on...

Thanks for the replies! I do not think it's the paint itself that is flawed now... I've recently been building models with white plastic (from AMT). Today I tried the paints on an Airfix model plane with dark grey plastic... and the colors looked the way they were supposed to! I'm not sure...

I have now tried various light grey colors from Humbrol.... 129, 166, 195, 147.... and none of them give satisfactory results. NONE of them get that cold, grey shade that the color charts indicate. What I do get is warm, creamy shades... shifting slightly in light brown and/or green. I tried...