what to back a translucent paint with

[skybolt]

Howdy, painting up a wraith body for the wife she wants the Tamiya PS39 (trans light blue) should I back it with silver or white, what what do you recommend using for the most brilliant finish color?

Thanks!

[4wd4ws]

Back it with Bright Silver, PS-41.

Spray very thin coats and make sure you get an even finish. The translucent paints are kinda weird.

[jwalker]

Once you have the blue on back it with ps12 silver so it has a solid back. The light silver is almost transparent.

[skybolt]

I think I'll try the solid backing color, I've got some scrap lexan to test on, should be interesting!

[Dad,Canyoufix?]

Tamiya gold

[CheapTwin]

Wouldn't gold turn it in to Green'ish ? My vote is for White, Silver will work too but the result might be dull when there's no light sources ( Sunlight, Spotlight ) around

[jwalker]

The silver will make it pop and the color would shift. If youbeant to get really creative you can spray the candy blue, pit a paint mask on, spray the white the pull the mask iff and finishbwith silver. It will give the design of the paint mask a really cool disappearing effect when younshift it in the light, I have done that on several bodies to have a ghost flame effect.

[58_Willys]

Trans paint are very unique, because you can get very artistic with color variations. By using different color trans paints overlapping different body sections, you can get a blended effect and you can still use a backer afterwords to finish it off. In the past, I've combined Candy Plum (discontinued I think) with the translucent metal flake pearl white, and backed with black and it turned out like a very rich Cran-blueberry color. I've also done a couple of green/teal/blue blends and red/orange blends, all backed with silver to give a metallic look to them.

Here's a simple Candy Yellow backed with metallic silver. The pics are kinda dull, because this is much brighter in person, think "French's Mustard" yellow with a metal flake finish.

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To answer your original question, PS12 solid backer. Try the blue on scraps first so you can layer it to the shade your wife likes.

[jwalker]

Here is what I was talking about. The flames are backed with Tamiya ps12 and body backed with white. It flips depending on the angle and light, they are on the sides as well.

[skybolt]

Thanks for all the pointers! those are some cool looking paint jobs!

[Dad,Canyoufix?]

This is trans red backed with gold. I assume it will turn your blue as green as it turned my red orange. Not much at all, even less if you back it all with black.