Tamiya Acrylic Mini X-27 Clear Red

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Painting clear red over a metallic gold will indeed produce a nice "candy red" finish, think Iron Man's suit of armor. Candy paint" is basically just any transparent paint over a base of another color, usually silver or gold. But you can use any paint as a base. Since it's your first experiment with this and your using Tamiya spray cans I'd recommend their transparent red over the metallic red ,, the one that looks like metallic pink, That will be easier to get a consistent color with less light and dark areas then using strait silver or gold as a base. Use light mist coats to build up the depth of candy you want then clearcoat it after it's dried a few days. After all these to and fo, I cannot believe I completely forgot this: YES, YOU CAN IN FACT BRUSH PAINT PS PAINTS! If you have the color you want in PS of course, and frankly, it will be better as they are the right paint for doing the job and paint from spray are well thinned down ready to go.

Acrylic X-27 Clear Red 23Ml Bottle / Tamiya USA Acrylic X-27 Clear Red 23Ml Bottle / Tamiya USA

To sum it up, from a fresh jar, 2 part paint, 1 part water. DO NOT USE X-20A THINNER AS IT DRYS TOO FAST! If you have decades old paint like I do, then you will have to thin it down with thinner, but using water after is important as it allows the paint time to flow to hide the brush marks.I've been messing around trying to do Heresy Thousand Sons for a little while now, I have been able to get reasonable but inconsistent results airbrushing Tamiya Clear Red over silver, but I am finding it annoying to use. To achieve a “Candy” appearance you want a metallic base and a clear colour coat. Experiment with base coats such as chrome, high metallic flake silver or gold. Tamiya now recommend that for missing colours you use the PS spray paints and simply spray into the cap for brushing." I too bought Tamiya X-22 for this exact reason, and all the articles I read where to use Tamiya Laquer Thinners. The laquer thinner produces the best results in thinning Tamiya products for airbrushing, espically the X-22 for this exact reason. It sounds like you are trying to brush paint instead of spraying? My advice is not to. Clear paint usually looks terrible when brushed. I tried brushing them when I do static models but now airbrush them these days.

Tamiya Clear Red vs Forgeworld Angron Red - + GENERAL PCA Tamiya Clear Red vs Forgeworld Angron Red - + GENERAL PCA

Don't get me wrong, I like Tamiya acrylics, I nearly have their entire range and use them all the time for hand painting to great results. when it comes to "clear coloured" paints, I have the usual jars of the Tamiya clear paints like X-23 clear red, X-27 clear blue etc. They take regular thinner (I had no issue with the Tamiya XV-20A, Vallejo Airbrush Thinner, and FW Clear Solution).Here is an example with Mr Colour silver and Mr Colour clear colours air brushed but they have clear colours in rattle cans too. Make sure the screw cap as well as the thread of the jar are clean of any paint residues and carefully wipe away excess paint. Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: I've brushed the Tamiya clear red, needs thinning slightly more to slow it drying really. Works for small areas fine so a Maine is fine but a rhino isn't as good. I may have been using it wrong, but I use it a lot for blood, as it has a very nice, glossy look to it. I'll paint the model normally, including the part which will be bloody, and then add the red over that. It doesn't have 100% coverage, so the paint bellow shows through a bit, but that is why I prefer it to other methods.