Mixing paint for rust color

[TLR_junkie]

Can someone tell me what colors I need to mix and amount to get a rust color?


Thanks!

[Mike Flea]

Are you painting on Lexan or Hardbody?

If Lexan, inside or outside?

Airbrush, Rattlecan, or brush on?

Michael's Craft Store sells a 3 part rust kit that can be used on the outside of hardbodies or lexan.

[TLR_junkie]

Airbrush on the inside of lexan

[Mike Flea]

Airbrush is out of my field of experience, so hopefully some of the airbrush painters will chime in, however, I use the rattlecans, and when trying to come up with a rust color, I'll use Tamiya PS14 copper paint, it's got that light brown look, with some metalflake in it, to leave a rusty look when the outside colors get scraped off.

I happened to check out Spazstix and Faskolor paints, and unless you know the colorchart, and know how to blend paints, most of their colors are bright and shiny for some pizzazz, on the other hand, Tamiya has acrylic paints for airbrush. Check out their on-line catalog, there's an XF28 Dark Copper, and an XF6 copper, that if you experimented a little, you should be able to come up with a pretty decent rust.

[CODYBOY]

Gold, red, and brown is what I would start with.

[kgb424]

Rust-Oleum makes a rust colored primer in rattle cans and pints

Testor's Enamel in the little glass bottles makes a rust colored paint

[Mike Flea]

Rustoleum and Testor's are enamel paints, and if applied directly to lexan will crack and peel when the lexan is flexed.

Spazstix, Faskolor, and Tamiya polycarbonate paints are acrylics, they flex when dry.

[BigSki]

Since you're painting Lexan, you can use the basic acrylics from a arts and cratfs store. In the past I've used burnt and raw sienna, dark orange, dark purple hues, dark reds for highlights. It depends on what level of rust you want; lightly corroded/ surface oxidation looks completely different from metal that's been rotting away for years.

[CODYBOY]

Here are some photos of my rusty jeep.




And how it looks now!!!

[TLR_junkie]

Thanks for the input guys, I have some random spaztix paints but I purchased faskolor brown and red which should get me close enough. I'm no expert painter so it should get me where I want to be.

[kgb424]

Here was my attempt

to beat up my Yoter

I added dents and used rust colored paint

I like how mine came out

[NorCalNomad]

Another great source for weathering ideas and tricks is to check out diesel detailers forum. It's all proto train guys but there weathering knowledge is mind blowing.

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