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Hello there. My Koenig Specials Competition has a very cool engine that is mostly silver with red accents. What silver rattle-can spray paint should I use to make a very nice engine? I've previously used just plain silver and brushed it on and it looked horrible.

I would love to use that special chrome we talked about earlier, but it's way too expensive and I dont' ahve that kind of money for now. So, what silver or aluminum would you recommend for the engine?

I've painted the chassis flat-black, but the chassis has the bottom half of the engine molded to it. Should I paint the rest of the engine parts flat black to start with as well?

Some engine parts are molded in white, and some in grey.

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To let you know, a lot of times when Hasegawa, Fujimi and Aoshima (sp) kits call for silver, they're actually calling for flat aluminum. Most engine blocks would be a flat aluminum. I prefer Tamiya acrylics XF-16 for painting engine blocks.

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Thank you, I'll look for flat-aluminum. I was also thinking about some of the paints used for WWI WWII airplanes that have that metalizer. I'm wondering if the Testarossa engine is aluminum?

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  Mr. Mike said:
Tamiya Spray TS-30 Silver leaf . Three light coats.

Got it today, thank you. Look's like it might be what I want for my 1/43 Honda Insight as well.

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Thank you. I decided it's too bright and silvery for the Insight model. But, it's perfect for the engine. It look's like aluminum and sprays nicely ontop of the flat-black primer.

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