Another option. AK Interactive Rust primer base and Tamiya Dull Red topcoat. Model is a 1/35 scale 20’ ISO Container (Trumpeter).
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I love this color and I am finding it so versatile in so many types of modeling!
Great work Sable!
Allowing for differences in photography and screen display, Sable, that is a perfect Recreation of the color on some containers I saw the other day.
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Indeed. Whether you’re using it as a paint or as a weathering effect Mike, you’re showing that color is having a zillion uses. Especially are you demonstrate it can be modified with those pastels.
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The minute I saw that container I thought “that one is factory fresh.” I immediately wanted to go at it with my pastels!
I don’t have a container done in the red oxide (yet) but these photos will give you an idea of how I might torcher one with my pastels and washes.
I know others have done even better with weathering their containers but for now I am happy with these.
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Thanks. It helps that in my line of work, I see a myriad of different shipping containers. Still have to weather this one to make it look like it’s been through a few trips across the ocean.
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Rusty Reference:
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Here is a “Container” (On30 boxcar) that I did use the Red Oxide Primer on and then weathered rather gently with oil pastels. (Also posted earlier)
Before weathering and after:
Standard On30 Bachmann cars, repainted, relettered and weathered.
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RDT ~ As for using this shade of red to represent the anti-fouling Copper Oxide paint on ship hulls, it may not be correct if you are trying to represent a freshly painted hull but in these photos it looks like the Tamiya color would be perfect if your are trying to recreate a older more well used ship.
Both photos found on line. Used here for discussion purposes only.
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Back in my youth we used a product on wooden boats called Red Hand - probably no longer made - nasty stuff and I mopped on my share of it . On haul out time it seemed to match boxcar red IIRC …
( love what you did with the brass Shay in another thread BTW )
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Just giving this thread a little bump to change things up a bit here on the Railroad Forum.
Come on guys and gals let’s get a little talk going in the outfield! - Support your team!
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Using the Tamiya paint for its’ original intended purpose: Painting the interiors of German tanks!
Hence the expression “from Swords into Plow Shares.” Meaning to take a military color and find peaceful uses for it!
A Bergepanther (recovery Panther) under construction. (Takom)
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Or here another completed Bergepanther (Italeri) where the Red Oxide is being used to represent the Rot-Brown colored paste used by the Germans to create their seasonal camouflage markings.
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Bump - bump