Mr. Color - Transparentní žlutá

Translucent Yellow from the Mr. Color Lacquer Line

A shade with no covering pigment that works as a color filter: the base stays visible through it and simply picks up a yellow tint. Over white it becomes a lemon-colored area, over silver a brassy sheen, over light gray a hint of aged varnish. The binder is a solvent-based nitrocellulose lacquer, so it is thinned with the matching thinner from the same brand, not water.

Typical Use for This Shade

It is most often used to tint clear moldings. A coat of the clear liquid over a navigation light gives a true colored glass lens, a layer over a reflector produces a marker light, and a thin cast over a canopy imitates the yellowed plexiglass of old aircraft. Over an aluminum or chrome base, it is mixed with translucent red to color glowing exhausts, and together the two produce a whole range of brass, bronze and gold without using a metallic pigment.

The second major use is weathering. Sprayed in an extremely thin coat over a finished paint job, it unifies the shade, softens the transitions between camouflage mottles, and gives the surface the tone paint gets after years in the sun. It is also used to depict dried oil drips and fuel traces around filler necks.

Application Step by Step

It is applied exclusively over a rich gloss, since on a matte base it would spread out into blotches. Spray it heavily thinned, in light coats and with a pause between them, because each additional pass deepens the shade and it cannot be lightened again afterward. It dries quickly into a hard, smooth surface that can take further lacquering and washes.