Best Hemi Orange V2 paint?

[mopargreg]

Hi guys,

Im wanting to paint a few cars in Hemi Orange V2. Thats the body colour Hemi Orange not the engine Hemi Orange. Ive got a can of Model master Hemi Orange here & I feel its got way to much Metallic fleck in it. Has anyone tried Scale Finishes Base Coat or MCW Hemi Orange? How is the metallic in the paint & is it fairly accurate to the 1/25 scale of the car? With the 1:1 Hemi Orange Mopars Ive seen the the metallic is not really noticeable from a distance & only noticeable when you are standing up close looking in the sun. Least with my eyes anyway. Maybe Im being pedantic but would prefer to get it right & be happy with it. 

Any help would be great. Thanks

[Snake45]

I painted a Charger 500 many years ago in MCW Hemi Orange. I didn't even realize it was "metallic" until someone pointed it out to me. 

Couple years ago I had to do some touchup on it. I used the Testor/MM Hemi Orange, decanted and applied by brush. You have to know where to look for it to spot the touchup spots, that's how close they are. 

[gtx6970]

Ive used the MM / Testors rattle can stuff. Its close to the real car, real close

[CapSat 6]

Maybe match the shade and then don't shake the can? Maybe the metallic will not mix with the rest of the paint, and you'll get a non-metallic color when you spray. You would have to play with it a bit. I agree that the metallic for this color wouldn't show up on a model, based on how miniscule the metallic flakes are in 1:1.

[StevenGuthmiller]

On 6/7/2020 at 8:09 PM, Snake45 said:

I painted a Charger 500 many years ago in MCW Hemi Orange. I didn't even realize it was "metallic" until someone pointed it out to me. 

Couple years ago I had to do some touchup on it. I used the Testor/MM Hemi Orange, decanted and applied by brush. You have to know where to look for it to spot the touchup spots, that's how close they are. 

MCW has some of the best metallic particle sizes in their paint on the market.

If they have the color that you are looking for, you will not be disappointed.

Just as an example, I painted this 1958 Chevy Impala some years ago with MCW metallic "Cay Coral".

The metallic particles are nearly imperceptible with the naked eye, but it has the metallic sheen that an object of this size should have to look in scale.

Beautiful stuff, and I would use MCW paints over Scale Finishes all of the time if MCW always carried the color that I was looking for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

 

 

 

[StevenGuthmiller]

2 hours ago, CapSat 6 said:

Maybe match the shade and then don't shake the can? Maybe the metallic will not mix with the rest of the paint, and you'll get a non-metallic color when you spray. You would have to play with it a bit. I agree that the metallic for this color wouldn't show up on a model, based on how miniscule the metallic flakes are in 1:1.

That will likely not work.

Generally, the metallic particles will sink to the bottom of the can.

If you spray without shaking, you will get basically nothing but metallic as the can draws from the bottom as it sprays.

Likewise, the pigments separate out from the paint and settle to the bottom as well.

If you spray without shaking the can, it's pretty certain that you will just wind up with a mess.

 

 

 

Steve

[CapSat 6]

44 minutes ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

That will likely not work.

Generally, the metallic particles will sink to the bottom of the can.

If you spray without shaking, you will get basically nothing but metallic as the can draws from the bottom as it sprays.

Likewise, the pigments separate out from the paint and settle to the bottom as well.

If you spray without shaking the can, it's pretty certain that you will just wind up with a mess.

 

 

 

Steve

Yikes. Maybe draw the paint out of a can, let the metallic settle into a jar, separate and airbrush? I could have sworn I read about a way to do this...  

[StevenGuthmiller]

2 hours ago, CapSat 6 said:

Yikes. Maybe draw the paint out of a can, let the metallic settle into a jar, separate and airbrush? I could have sworn I read about a way to do this...  

That might work better, although I cannot say how well.

As you can see from this jar of Scale Finishes metallic paint that I used not more than an hour ago, the pigment and metallic particles have begun to settle out very quickly.

 

In this photo, you can see how much of that settling has already begun to take place.

In a couple of hours, almost all of the metallic and pigment will have settled to the bottom, leaving an almost clear yellow liquid at the top.

 

 

 

This photo shows how much of the metallic has settled to the very bottom, looking almost totally silver.

 

 

 

 

If you poured off the top portion at this point and tried spraying that, I'm thinking that you would leave far too much of the solids behind resulting in very poor coverage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve