How are we supposed to know which ones are the "semi-transparent pearlescent" overcoats? I'd be interested in knowing which of the blue shades are semi-transparent, in case any of you have already experimented with them. For your records (if you're interested) 2711 Anthracite Gray is semi-transparent. That's the only one I've discovered so far.
David Kennesaw, GA
Yeah, much to my chagrin, I was looking for a substitute for dark mettallic. I don't think this is a purposefull effort on Testors part. The only other coatings like that are their "candy" colors in the spray cans which require a silver or gold undercoat. I haven't tried the Boyd line yet. Where did you see "semi-transparent" mentioned? tia
The Keeper (of too much crap!)
On the "Paints" section of the Testors web site, they have the Car & Truck
1/2 oz Enamels here:I put Anthracite Gray over airbrushed shades of med gray, sky blue, raf pru blue, and deep sea blue (all flat colors), and it looks great. This could be useful. I almost wish I had something to do with it besides paint up test parts from wrecked models. I am using Anthracite Gray over Aircraft Interior black (flat) on a mech model right now. It's not quite the extreme shading variation they had in mind with this paint, but it is at least giving me easy flat to gloss shading & panel variations.
David Kennesaw, GA
On the "Paints" section of the Testors web site, they have the Car & Truck
1/2 oz Enamels here:I put Anthracite Gray over airbrushed shades of med gray, sky blue, raf pru blue, and deep sea blue (all flat colors), and it looks great. This could be useful. I almost wish I had something to do with it besides paint up
8test parts from wrecked models. I am using Anthracite Gray over Aircraft Interior black (flat) on a mech model right now. It's not quite the extreme shading variation they had in mind with this paint, but it is at least giving me easy flat to gloss shading & panel variations.David Kennesaw, GA
I think "Roadstar Orange" is semi-transparent. I used some over a coat of FS30219 on a Modelhaus '58 Lincoln. So far, pretty good. I'm not sure if it's close to any stock Lincoln colours but it's attractive.
Bill Banaszak, MFE
Yes, I've used some of the engine colors and they're sufficiently opaque.
I'll have to try some more of the "exterior" colors, could be most of them are transparent. I hope the Plum Crazy isn't. While having to use an undercoat doubles the work it will give us a lot of variants. They also indicate by using more thinner than paint you can get a flat finish.
Thanks,
The Keeper (of too much crap!)
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