Are there any good paints for silver details on scale models?
From: Orville ???? The Krylon silver paint looks very much like real silver, that’s because it’s made of a clear coat plus real metal flakes. The only problem is when you touch it the finish becomes dull. The solution to this problem is: Finish your surface as usually. Spray a final coat of Krylon on and let dry 2 days, but don’t even think about touching it. After 2 days spray Krylon clear coat over the silver with very light coats ,letting each coat dry 5 minutes between sprayings. This will give you a very nice finish. From: Peter “wondered if they had silver spray paint for the Tin Woodman’s axe in the Wizard of Oz” Alway (petealway@aol.com) I’m starting to get serious about silver paints, now that I am working on 1930’s rockets. I think it’s worth getting a sense of several metallic colors, all for different purposes. As near as I can tell, most are either simply glossy (Testors Chrome, Dutch Boy silver) or matte (Testors silver, and apparently Krylon. As an experiment, I tried bu
