Orange Brown 17ml

Orange Brown, an AK interactive 3rd Generation acrylic paint

A bottled acrylic with a water-thinnable binder. The shade lies between orange and brown and is the classic tone of fresh corrosion, the color rust has in the places where it is only beginning and has not yet gone dark brown. Besides rust it suits terracotta and clay surfaces, brick, the rusty edges of sheet metal, autumn leaves on a diorama and richer wood.

Which surfaces it belongs on and how it behaves

Rust never appears as a uniform area, so do not approach it as one when painting either. This shade works best in layers: a darker red-brown base, then orange-brown patches on the edges, around the rivets and in the places where water runs down, and finally pigments and washes for texture. A combined technique with a sponge and an airbrush gives the fastest result, the sponge for uneven patches and the airbrush for a soft blur around them. Mix it with yellow for the freshest corrosion, with dark brown for older rust and with gray for dusty rust. Use it only within the acrylics of the same range.

Spraying with an airbrush

• Thin it to the consistency of milk and spray in fine passes, so that the transitions of the rust stay soft.
• Do not hurry: let every coat dry through, otherwise the patches run together into a uniform area.
• For small dots and streaks, work close up at low pressure and open the trigger only a little.
• If you want running marks, spray vertically from the top down and blur them with thinned paint.
• Clean the airbrush immediately after you finish, because the pigments of brown tones cling in the nozzle and will mark the next shade.

Who it is for

For modelers of worn military and civilian equipment, for diorama builders and for ship builders, where rusty areas are an inseparable part of the result.

Store it in a tightly closed bottle out of the reach of children. Ventilate the room while spraying and use respiratory protection. Do not flush paint residues down the drain.