GENERAL: Who makes a good satin black?
Scott Haas
I'm looking for a good satin black to use for the leather seats on the Monogram Corvette Grand Sport. Any recommendations?
Also, since I mostly build newer cars (all with leather interior), I'm always looking for different satin colors. Is it easier to just mix gloss and flat paint or does someone make a line of satin colors?
TIA
:SSH
Todd Enlund
sco...@meaddata.com (Scott Haas) wrote:
>TIA
>:SSH
Paint the seats flat black, and rub then with your fingers... the oils
in your skin will give you just the effect you are looking for.
Todd Enlund
"Bandits at 3 O'clock"
"Roger. What should I do 'till then?"
SC Lexicat
In article <4rr0c2$3...@mailgate.lexis-nexis.com>, sco...@meaddata.com
(Scott Haas) writes:
>I'm looking for a good satin black to use for the leather seats on the
>Monogram Corvette Grand Sport. Any recommendations?
Humbrol 85 (Coal) always works well for me, especially when airbrushed.
Simon Craven
Lexicat Ltd
England
Alexander Kung
Scott Haas wrote:
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> I'm looking for a good satin black to use for the leather seats on the Monogram Corvette Grand Sport. Any recommendations?
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gloss and flat pain
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> :SSH
I use Tamiya flat black (any brand should work also) then rub with a
cloth or tissue paper. The amount of rubbing will determine how shiney
or flat the finish will be.
Hope this helps
Paul Harding
sco...@meaddata.com (Scott Haas) wrote:
>I'm looking for a good satin black to use for the leather seats on the Monogram Corvette Grand Sport. Any recommendations?
>Also, since I mostly build newer cars (all with leather interior), I'm always looking for different satin colors. Is it easier to just mix gloss and flat paint or does someone make a line of satin colors?
>TIA
>:SSH
Protec Hydrocoatings have a flexible Black paint ready for launch.
See there web page at http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parade/nd60/
Mike Settle
Scott Haas wrote:
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> I'm looking for a good satin black to use for the leather seats on the Monogram Corvette Grand Sport. Any recommendations?
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Go to a hardware store or home center and look for Rustoleum brand
paint. This is an enamel paint for metal, but they have a real good
satin black available in spray or cans. Test on a scrap piece of plastic
from your project just to be safe. Also, you can paint it a flat color
from your favorite brand, then when it is dry, rub it with your finger.
Once again, experiment on scrap first to see if you like the results.
Mike Settle
--
(Our problems are mostly behind us. What we have to do now is fight the
solutions. --Anon. )
Bob Buxbaum
I accidently found the spray and rub technique does work. I sprayed some
Testor's flat black enamel through my airbrush and made the mistake of being
too far away from the item I was spraying. I discovered that the paint was
"fuzzy". After it was dry I was rubbing it with my finger and it started to
get a bit of a dull gloss to it. I did it again on purpose and it worked
again! I did find that it is important that the paint be thinned. What
happens is that the paint starts to dry before it hits the surface and when
rubbed out one can obtain a near satin finish.
Bob Buxbaum
Columbia, Md.
Jennings Heilig
Spraying flat black and then scrubbing with a toothbrush also
works well. Actually, I scrub my entire model with an old toothbrush (a
very soft one) after I paint. It evens out the paint and sometimes,
depending on the brand of paint (usually Gunze), actually smooths it out
enough that I don't have to use glosscoat before decalling.
Give it a try :)
Jennings
Mark Shannon
In <Pine.A32.3.93.960715...@navajo.gate.net> Jennings
Black (glossy), #33 Black (matt), and #85 Coal Black (satin).
John MacDonald
Jennings Heilig (jhe...@gate.net) writes:
> Spraying flat black and then scrubbing with a toothbrush also
> works well. Actually, I scrub my entire model with an old toothbrush (a
> very soft one) after I paint. It evens out the paint and sometimes,
> depending on the brand of paint (usually Gunze), actually smooths it out
> enough that I don't have to use glosscoat before decalling.
>
> Give it a try :)
>
>
> Jennings
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Do you floss before brushing as well?
John...
Peng F. Mok
>> Scott Haas wrote:
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>> > I'm looking for a good satin black to use for the leather seats on the Monogram Corvette Grand Sport. Any recommendations?
>> >
Go to an Artists' supplies store for a tube of black acrylic paint
(around$5). Its in gel form so never need shaking up before use. It
applies on real thick and dries like a skin on your plastic. Or you
can thin it down with water to use in an airbrush or thin it even
further to make a wash. I find it ideal for painting/simulating
rubber for tires, boots, fittings and using a stiff brush you can
easily texture it to simulate leather or add any other stuff (eg. fine
sand or sawdust) to simulate other textured surfaces. The tube gel
paint doesn't run and it dries real fast (5 minutes) for you to
paint over it soon with another color.
After some experience - stock up first on black, white, burnt sienna,
raw umber and yellow ochre which are earth colors and very useful if
you do armor models - you will gain enough confidence through use to
buy other colors. An artist can mix paint colors to paint any subject
and to create a 3D effect on a 2D piece of canvas which is to say you
can mix colors to reproduce any color in the hobby paint selection.
Being in gel form you have the option of mixing colors homogenously,
blend different shades of colors or streak them without different
colors bleeding into one another to create the weathered shades of
color, and the light and shadows that bring out depth and life when
painting figures or a model of a machine. Its ideal for dry brushing
since its almost dry already.
.A $5 tube of acrylic paint will outlast more than 5 bottles of model
acrylic paint. Since its the same material you can use them in
conjunction with your current acrylic hobby paints which means you
don't have to throw out your stock of paints. Wish I had discovered
artists' paints earlier.
Kelvin Mok.