How do you paint jet engines?

if you like the way this looks; I did a silver base, then airbrushed the inside solid flat black; and then angled the airbrush towards the end and held it untill I got the darkness I liked.

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looks good! But what I meant was painting the engine entirely and not the visible exhaust part only. My kit comes with panels you can open to expose the engines. I want to learn how to paint it. Thanks!

For this one ...

I used Alclad Stainless Steel for the base. Detailed it with gray and red, added som wiring painted red, and washed it with black. I intentionally left it pretty grimy looking.

This one ...

started with MM Stainless Steel and then got a heavy dose of flat black and some drybrushing with white and a touch of blue.

Best advice I can give is to search the net for photos of the engine you are doing and then try to match the photos. They are all different yet in many ways similar.

Heat does some strange things to the engine colors. Here is a photo I took last year of the right side exhaust on an F-15A . Note how the heat generated has given the parts all kinds of different colors.

You would be right in leaving the engine a bit grimmy. Depending on the engine there is always a bit of oil combined with carbon and general grime. Jet engines really dont like the oil to be overserviced, and most will blow oil everywhere when they are. Especially some Pratt -Whitney engines (PW120 on the ATR-42/72 ESPECIALLY) which leak oil like a sieve.

They are metalizers made such as "burnt iron" by Moder Master-but I've also heard of using metallic eye shadow to get the right effect. Be careful buying it-your buddies might be watching.

Dan

Thanks guys! Only gunze and tamiya paints are avaiblable in my area so I guess that'll have to do. =)

Eye shadow???? Oh really!! Have you been raiding your wife's supplies again?

Darwin, O.F.

Hey Yardbird! Just raiding not wearing!!!

yeah??? that's not what we heard!!!!! Sorry couldn't resist!!!

Okay, Giobosco-ya caught me-I even shave my legs! ;-)

hehe, thanks for the tip anyway, will certainly give it a go, regards to all
Gb