Clear Gray

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Don Stauffer

What will you be using it for? If you have an airbrush and dial the paint flow way back, you can get a translucent gray.  I do that a lot for weathering.

 

 

 

 

 

Revell's Corvette C7.R head lightcover.

After a couple of crazy days at work, I got to experiment using your suggestion. A thinned down Testor's enamel black metallic looks spot on. It looks like a medium to dark shinny translucent grey.

Thanks

 

For that kind of thing I tend to use marker pens.  Most of them leave a less than opaque coating on plastic. I would experiment with various pens, however.  Or, if no scrap transparent plastic, use other than permanent markers.  I like the highlighter types for tail-light and turn-signal lenses, very transparent color.

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Don Stauffer

What will you be using it for? If you have an airbrush and dial the paint flow way back, you can get a translucent gray.  I do that a lot for weathering.

 

 

Revell's Corvette C7.R head lightcover.

After a couple of crazy days at work, I got to experiment using your suggestion. A thinned down Testor's enamel black metallic looks spot on. It looks like a medium to dark shinny translucent grey.

Thanks

Take some compatible varnish (clear coat) and mix in an appropriate shade of gray. Adjust the ratio until desired translucency is acheived. I use Tamiya clear flat, which gives me a translucent paint that doesn't have the gloss of the Tamia clear paints.

You might try Tamiya X-19 smoke. It's more translucent than clear and is a darkish grey but if misted lightly could do the trick.

Tamiya X-19 Smoke is a clear grey....

What will you be using it for? If you have an airbrush and dial the paint flow way back, you can get a translucent gray.  I do that a lot for weathering.