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Are you after "silver" per se, or "silver" as in BMF?

Humbrol 11 is actually quite a nice silver, especially for silver dope finishes, and brushes really well

Avoid Humbrol Metalcote, the quality control isn't there and I have had a couple of bad tins which were unusable

I've had good results with spray can silver sold for decorations, decanted into a pot and brushed on

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Yeah--silver as in silver, or silver as in polished/chrome metal?

If you want silver---get something from Floquil or Polly-Scale. Stainless steel and ATSF silver are very good, and the best acrylic silvers period.

For chrome-like---MM enamel chrome silver is the only real option IMHO.

Option: Tamiya's silver *marker*. It's unique and unlike any other Tamiya paint AFAIK. Just "marker up the brush" and go for it. Fairly "hot" though and stickier than most---never tried to thin it. It's about as smooth as MM chrome silver.

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it's for this plane:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/KLM---Royal...-8K2/1466529/L/

Instructions of the decals say silver, and that seems about right.

I think you might find "silver" a bit too metallic for that scheme, I think you might be better with a pale grey coat with a really thin "silver" coat over the top just for the shine.

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I think you might find "silver" a bit too metallic for that scheme, I think you might be better with a pale grey coat with a really thin "silver" coat over the top just for the shine.

At first I was thinking of that too cause in dark weather it looked more grey then silver. One of the things I was worried about then is the thin coat of silver. How will it look like once mixed, will it flake? And which greypaint will the one to use?

@lock n' load: Putting foil on the model is out of the question really. It's something I haven't doen before. And frankly a want a bit of a clean build with this one.

But I'm still waiting on an answer at another place about the real colour used there. That info will help a lot.

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That's more like metallic grey than anything, I wouldn't use any existing silver paint for that. Rant:

Truly lazy on KLM's part. Just actually strip and polish the belly if you're going to try to replicate the old bare-metal-belly livery. We all know NG 737s can be bare metal. Truly, they can do in 1:1 what we can't in 1:72---actually polish up bare metal. But seriously, a can of Tamiya Silver would have looked more like the original paint scheme than this.

For some reason nearly every airline retro scheme uses "metallic grey" paint, instead of a really nice silver paint, to try to replicate the bare metal areas.

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Try to find Games Workshop/Citadel colors.

A mix of Boltgun Metal and a Light Grey paint will do.

I think that colors are the best for brushing,even better from enamels,and without any brush strokes....

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Mad Viper,

I assume that you don't have an airbrush available at this time. That is a shame, because it would provide you with many different options. That said, I don't know if you have Testor's available in the Netherlands, but they used to have a color, German Silver (if memory serves me correctly) available in their Model Master line, as a spray. It had less of a "chrome" quality to it. A word of caution though, Testor's regular silver enamels take "forever" to fully dry. Good luck with what ever you decide upon.

Sincerely,

David

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David,

An airbush isn't available at the time, not in the near future either. Model Master is available but couldn't find german grey.

But after some quick search I found some other interesting options.

Vallejo Silver Grey FS36622 and Tamiya Metallic Grey XF56. But by looking at the jar it seems that the last one is a bit to dark to my taste.

And I thought this would be a simple thing :thumbsup:

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Agree on the XF56.

I like the idea of mixing grey with a metalcolour.

But then come the question of which grey then? Don't have all the greyshades in the collection and checking which one will the best will be a long job. And personally I don't have the time to do that.

So howbout that Vallejo silvergrey then.

Just found a coloursample for whatever thats correct on a pcscreen.

Vallejo Silver Grey

Starting to think that this colour it's a good match.

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