ATOM COLOR Dark Rust

ATOM COLOR Dark Rust, an AMMO acrylic model paint (20 ml)

ATOM COLOR Dark Rust is a model paint, not a kit. It is a water-thinnable acrylic from the ATOM line of AMMO in a bottle holding 20 ml, with a cap you can open one-handed. The paint has a very fine pigment, levels itself into a smooth coat and dries quickly to a flat finish, so it does not flood fine detail. It is odorless, thinned with water or with the thinner from the same line and applied with a brush as well as an airbrush. This shade is a dark rust, the deep, settled corrosion you see in the shadows and recesses of metal long left untreated.

Use

• Dark rust in the recesses: the shadows of rusted surfaces, the bottoms of corrosion pits, gaps, seams and the places under lifted sheet metal.
• Wrecks and long-parked equipment: running gear, exhausts, chains, tracks, tanks and drums in a diorama.
• A dark base under lighter rust, the first layer on which more orange and lighter tones are then built.
• Chipping and flaked paint: stippling dark rust into scratches and onto exposed edges.
• For the airbrush add roughly 30 percent of thinner from the ATOM line; for the brush it can be used straight from the bottle.

How to turn it into realistic rust

Rust is not a single color and this shade will not make rust on its own. Real corrosion comes from layering: the dark tone stays in the recesses and shadows, while lighter and more orange rust shades are added to the raised edges and lit surfaces. Apply it thinned and unevenly, stippling with a sponge or a splayed brush rather than as a continuous covering coat. Patches, transitions and discontinuous places are what make the result believable. Once dry the paint is durable, so oil paints, enamel washes and pigments can go over it without worry to fine-tune the depth of the corrosion.

Who the paint is for

For modelers who weather tanks, aircraft, ships, railway models and dioramas, and for anyone who builds rust in layers and needs the darkest tone for the foundation.

A water-thinnable acrylic; the tools are cleaned with water or with thinner from the ATOM line. Ventilate when airbrushing and protect your airways. Keep out of the reach of children and close the bottle carefully after use.