Guest Posted July 23, 2019 Report Share Posted July 23, 2019 Before we had metallic paints, how did people paint metal colors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Posted July 23, 2019 Report Share Posted July 23, 2019 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fingolfen Posted July 23, 2019 Report Share Posted July 23, 2019 I've been doing models and minis since the 70s and there were plenty of metallics available then... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 23, 2019 Report Share Posted July 23, 2019 10 hours ago, Brandon said: <Video Link> Thank you, exactly what I was hoping to find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted July 24, 2019 Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 4 hours ago, fingolfen said: I've been doing models and minis since the 70s and there were plenty of metallics available then... Yeah, as I understand it, metallic paints were a pretty early addition to model painting. That said, painters on canvas or whatever had been working on NMM for literally centuries before that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fingolfen Posted July 24, 2019 Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 Well if you are going that route, then gold leaf was very common in manuscripts. Silver less so for obvious reasons. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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