"Help!" for: Painting

[Hugh Holder]

Anybody know of a place (for sure) to get gunmetal gray spraypaint. Not quite as dark as black primer, but just light enough to notice a color variation?

I've looked online, at home depot, hobby lobby, and wal-mart and I cannot seem to find the right shade.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

[Nintendude]

I've used Ghost Grey Flat Spray Paint from Wal-Mart for things in the past it's pretty close to Gun Metal.

Now my helpful painting tip: To give your armor a worn and metal showing look this is what you need to do to it. First coat the armor with primer, grey red or black does'nt matter, but I would stick with grey or black primer. Now get chrome paint and spray areas that you will want to show out, now after you have sprayed a couple coats in the areas you want it to show spray your armor color on top of the chrome paint once it dries take a very fine grit sandpaper and scratch away a little of the top coat to reveal the chrome underneath, try to not go through the chrome to the primer which is why you do more than one coat of chrome in the areas you want to show up.

[ventrue]

Anybody know of a place (for sure) to get gunmetal gray spraypaint. Not quite as dark as black primer, but just light enough to notice a color variation

If all else fails, you can get an airbrush set and mix the colour yourself. That is more work though, because with airbrush it isn't just open-empty-trash - you'll actually have to clean that afterwards ;-)

[Hugh Holder]

Thanks for the advice guys

I'll check wal-mart again Nintendude, thanks. I probably should look at getting an airbrush at some point in the future. Ventrue, do you suggest any particular brush? Perhaps one geared for mid-sized objects like props?

[ventrue]

Ventrue, do you suggest any particular brush? Perhaps one geared for mid-sized objects like props?

I'm afraid not, I was just pointing them out as an alternative. I have never gotten around to actually buy one myself because they are so much more work than a simple paintbrush (which was totally sufficient for the 1:72 models I used to work on) or even a spray can (as I said: Open, use, throw away.. :-)).

[Nintendude]

I can suggest brushes for props to get your base color onto the prop use a wide brush to get the little details painted use smaller brushes to get into grooves and get the little details painted out.

[~rumble]

Anybody know of a place (for sure) to get gunmetal gray spraypaint. Not quite as dark as black primer, but just light enough to notice a color variation?
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I can only find it in O'Reilly Auto Parts - check through the duplicolor paints. Last time I tried to go buy some, I could only find the small cans though.

[J326]

ok I'm nearing the painting phase of my armor so I have a few questions:
1) How many cans of Primer, and how many cans of paint does it take to paint the whole armor set?
2) Is there any specific type(not color) of paint i should get?
3)Do i seal the paint up with anything afterwards?

[Ruari]

How would I go about painting on text, for example, my service tag, or UNSC?

[J326]

How would I go about painting on text, for example, my service tag, or UNSC?

print it out on and use an exacto knife to cut out the lettering and the piece you now have is a stencil. Hold the stencil to the armor piece you plan to paint it on and then paint the cut out part of the stencil.