OXIDE RED – ARTISTIC DENSE ACRYLIC COLOR

Oxide Red - Artistic Dense Acrylic Color from AK interactive

Artistic Dense is a range of dense acrylic paints with a high pigment content. The binder is acrylic, so the paint thins with water or with the medium of the same range and needs no lacquer or synthetic thinner. The Oxide Red shade is an iron oxide red, that is a dark brick red with a brown cast, of the kind familiar from basic anti-corrosion coatings. The dense consistency is built for the brush and for mixing your own tones; for an airbrush it has to be thinned.

Where the shade belongs

Iron oxide red serves above all as an undercoat and base color: the insides of landing gear bays, the undersides of bodies, repaired areas of sheet metal, brickwork in a diorama, leather straps and holsters on figures. It holds well over a dark base, but even here two thin coats look better than one heavy one. A heavy coat of a dense paint will fill fine engraving and the model loses it.

The scale effect: saturation falls with distance

Red shades shout loudest on a model. On a real machine the layer of air between the eye and the metal lowers the saturation and shifts the shade toward gray, but a model is looked at from half a meter, so no such damping happens. On larger areas it therefore pays to lighten iron oxide red slightly with ocher or white and to keep the pure shade for the hollows and for small detail. On a figure held in the hand the situation is reversed: the viewing distance is short and full saturation is right.

Use and who it is for

• Stir the paint thoroughly before use; the dense pigment settles at the bottom.
• Lay it on in thin coats with a brush; for an airbrush thin it with water or with the medium of the range.
• It suits modelers who mix their own shades from a limited palette.
• Suitable for figures, vehicles and diorama elements.

Work in a ventilated space and use a respirator when spraying. Close the bottle carefully; acrylic dries quickly at the rim.