A gold shade from the buffable metal Gunze Mr. Metal Color range, supplied in a ten milliliter bottle.
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On a model, gold tends to be the seasoning rather than the main course. It turns up on buckles and uniform buttons, on instrument bezels, on decorative elements of historic sailing ships, on the halo of a figure or on temple fittings in a diorama. Precisely because these are small areas, the result is decided above all by how the surface reflects light - and that is where this range is at home.
The process has two stages. First a thin coat goes on, which after drying looks semi-matte, and only mechanical buffing lines up the metal flakes and draws the shine out of them. On very small parts a cocktail stick wrapped in a piece of cloth or a cotton swab will do the job, and a soft cloth on larger areas. Anyone who wants only a restrained glint stops buffing sooner.
The binder is solvent-based, it is thinned with this brand's thinner, and it is only proper to open a window when spraying. The base should be smooth: every scratch or remnant of sanding dust is emphasized under a metallic shade rather than hidden.
Finished gilding can then be knocked back with a thin dark wash run into the recesses. The shade loses its newness and starts to resemble metal with a few decades behind it.
On figures it pays to leave this step for last. The other colors are finished first and the metal accents come as the last stroke of the brush - by then the part is handled much less and the buffed areas stay free of streaks and fingerprints. A small area buffs up faster than you would expect, after all.
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