LC38 - Rust #2 FS32169 Matt

The second rust tone FS32169 and the age of corrosion

The second rust shade in the palette exists for one simple reason: rust on a real vehicle does not have one color. Fresh corrosion is more orange and brighter; old rust darkens toward brown and sinks into its surroundings. When a modeler tells the two apart, the wear stops looking like a painted patch and starts looking like a process that went on for years on the vehicle. The name gives the number of the American Federal Standard color standard, FS32169, and the matte degree of sheen.

Layering over a camouflage scheme

• Start with the darker rust tone as a base and use this more orange one on smaller areas inside it, as though the corrosion had just broken through.
• Keep to the places where the finish goes naturally: the edges of hatches, around welds, the clamps, the steps and the edges of fenders.
• Run the rust traces in the direction water runs, that is, from top to bottom.
• On too regular a boundary between two camouflage fields, rust breaks up the machine precision of a mask.

Who the color is for

For modelers who build worn and long-serving vehicles, and for builders of dioramas with wrecks and laid-up vehicles, where corrosion is the main storyteller.

Keep the paint out of the reach of children and, when spraying, work in a well-ventilated space.