Custom mixed colour opinions

[kacitgirl]

[Bainford]

I like the colour, but it is a little heavy on the flake for my taste. That may be just the photo, though, as flake always tends to appear much larger in posted photos.

[kacitgirl]

20 minutes ago, Bainford said:

I like the colour, but it is a little heavy on the flake for my taste. That may be just the photo, though, as flake always tends to appear much larger in posted photos.

does look bigger in the picture tbh yes

[1930fordpickup]

I like it. The flash from a camera does male thd flake pop. 

[stavanzer]

Great Colour!

You rarely see Purple Cars anymore.

I like it.

[peteski]

I do like the color, but also agree with others that the "glitter size" flakes are bit much for me. Actually quite a few model paints (especially a certain line of sprays for car models from Testors) have oversized flakes. This is often because the model paint formula is based on the 1:1 paint. But if you take those metallic flakes which look nice on a 1:1 car and apply them to a model which is 25 times smaller, you get the glitter paint effect.   While this is not too objectionable when viewing the model in-person, that large flake size really pops out in the close-up photos.  I'm my model club's contest photographer and I run into the oversized flakes on photos quit a bit.

There are however model paint manufacturers who use much finer metallic particles so the 1:25 scale models painted with their metallic paints look like accurately scaled miniatures.

But it's all a personal preference, so all it counts is that you like the look.

[StevenGuthmiller]

31 minutes ago, peteski said:

I do like the color, but also agree with others that the "glitter size" flakes are bit much for me. Actually quite a few model paints (especially a certain line of sprays for car models from Testors) have oversized flakes. This is often because the model paint formula is based on the 1:1 paint. But if you take those metallic flakes which look nice on a 1:1 car and apply them to a model which is 25 times smaller, you get the glitter paint effect.   While this is not too objectionable when viewing the model in-person, that large flake size really pops out in the close-up photos.  I'm my model club's contest photographer and I run into the oversized flakes on photos quit a bit.

There are however model paint manufacturers who use much finer metallic particles so the 1:25 scale models painted with their metallic paints look like accurately scaled miniatures.

But it's all a personal preference, so all it counts is that you like the look.

I agree with everything you've said.

It's surprising how those metallic particles can show so pronounced in photographs, even with a paint designed to be used on 1/25th scale models with tiny metallic particles! 

 

I have quite a number of models painted with MCW or Scale Finishes paints which to the naked eye, are absolutely beautiful, and discerning any individual metallic particles is all but impossible.

But photograph them in the right light and a certain angle, and there's no missing them!

 

Just the difference between these two photos makes it quite obvious.

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

[kacitgirl]

2 hours ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

I agree with everything you've said.

It's surprising how those metallic particles can show so pronounced in photographs, even with a paint designed to be used on 1/25th scale models with tiny metallic particles! 

 

I have quite a number of models painted with MCW or Scale Finishes paints which to the naked eye, are absolutely beautiful, and discerning any individual metallic particles is all but impossible.

But photograph them in the right light and a certain angle, and there's no missing them!

 

Just the difference between these two photos makes it quite obvious.

 

   

 

nice colour

 

 

 

 

Steve

 

[peteski]

3 hours ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

I agree with everything you've said.
It's surprising how those metallic particles can show so pronounced in photographs, even with a paint designed to be used on 1/25th scale models with tiny metallic particles!
I have quite a number of models painted with MCW or Scale Finishes paints which to the naked eye, are absolutely beautiful, and discerning any individual metallic particles is all but impossible.

But photograph them in the right light and a certain angle, and there's no missing them!

That is true that the direction of lighting makes a difference in how a metallic (or mica) paint will look.  But as I mentioned, there are metallic powders with different size "grit" available for companies which custom mix paints (for model  paints and for 1:1 cars, so the formulas can be tweaked to produce metallic paints with very fine metallic particles.  If you ever looked at several cars (in a parking lot) on a sunny day you woudl likely even see the that the metallic paints on those cars have different size metallic particles.

Your example does demonstrate pretty well how by using different lighting angle the metallic paint will look different but even in the photo where the metallic particles are more visible, they do not look out of scale. MCW is one of the companies that uses smaller metallic particles for mode paints.  But for example most (if not all) Testors One Coat metallic paints have IMO  metallic particles which are too large (out of scale) for model cars.

Edited yesterday at 08:59 PM by peteski

[StevenGuthmiller]

2 hours ago, peteski said:

That is true that the direction of lighting makes a difference in how a metallic (or mica) paint will look.  But as I mentioned, there are metallic powders with different size "grit" available for companies which custom mix paints (for model  paints and for 1:1 cars, so the formulas can be tweaked to produce metallic paints with very fine metallic particles.  If you ever looked at several cars (in a parking lot) on a sunny day you woudl likely even see the that the metallic paints on those cars have different size metallic particles.

Your example does demonstrate pretty well how by using different lighting angle the metallic paint will look different but even in the photo where the metallic particles are more visible, they do not look out of scale. MCW is one of the companies that uses smaller metallic particles for mode paints.  But for example most (if not all) Testors One Coat metallic paints have IMO  metallic particles which are too large (out of scale) for model cars.

I agree with all of that also!

I stopped using Testors “Model Master” lacquers a long time ago for that very reason.

Their “Extreme” lacquers are even worse.

 

 

 

Steve

[Falcon Ranchero]

20 hours ago, peteski said:

ut for example most (if not all) Testors One Coat metallic paints have IMO  metallic particles which are too large (out of scale) for model cars.

That's very true; usually I'm not terribly unsatisfied with that but for example, my '69 Dodge Daytona, I had it sprayed a silver Testors Extreme laquer which Steve mentioned there are worse than most model paints, and I was thrown off in the store because the cap looked like a nice, non-aggressive silver which is what I wanted. But holy smokes it came out like a glitter ball which I wasn't terribly inpressed with. A clear coat kinda calmed it down but it was definitely not the greatest.

I purposely took dim, crappy photos of it so the paint wouldn't show as much, but I did one with extra lighting and it shows more intense.

But for example, my '60 Impala, that was also testors; can't remember if it was extreme laquer or one coat. But I have to admit I was quite pleased with it, but even still I photographed it so it wasn't terrible. I guess really for online showing, the way you take the photo can really help hide glitzy paint jobs.