shinjikun1
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can someone point to an article on verdigris effect for metals?
verdigris effect
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Don\'t know of an article, but Donga666 has done a spot on job with verdigris on a chaos champion he\'s just finished - the best verdigris I\'ve seen I have to say...
I know he did it using a mix of VMC verdigris and green paint. PM him and ask - don\'t want to post any pics of it, but I\'m sure he\'ll send you some!
I know he did it using a mix of VMC verdigris and green paint. PM him and ask - don\'t want to post any pics of it, but I\'m sure he\'ll send you some!
shinjikun1
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thanks I PMed him.
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sebrushworth
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Please excuse my ignorance, but what is verdigris?
Einion
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1. Paint item dark brown or dark green.
2. Glaze or drybrush heavily with a light blue-green colour (made with lots of white) leaving some of the dark colour in the recesses.
3. Drybrush bronze/brass/copper colour onto high spots and/or where there might be wear to expose the bare metal.
4. Sit back and admire effect
Einion
2. Glaze or drybrush heavily with a light blue-green colour (made with lots of white) leaving some of the dark colour in the recesses.
3. Drybrush bronze/brass/copper colour onto high spots and/or where there might be wear to expose the bare metal.
4. Sit back and admire effect
Einion
When certain metals oxidise to a color that isn\'t red or redish brown, some people get really uppity if you call it rust.
Copper and bronze (because it is a copper alloy) oxidizes to green and it\'s called verdigris. Alluminum if I recall correctly oxidizes to white but I don\'t think it has a name.
Einion
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This is a bit pedantic but bronze and copper don\'t oxidise to green (brass does a little) but rather to browns and red/brown/black respectively. Verdigris isn\'t an oxide, it\'s copper acetate or sulphate commonly.
Aluminium oxide is usually called alumina and is indeed usually white, you can buy this as an abrasive powder, in another form you\'d be buying ruby or sapphire. Generally you don\'t see this colour on the metal though - because it is highly reactive all exposed aluminium has a layer of oxide on it within a short time and it is very tough, preventing further reaction so the layer is too thin to see. Pretty much the same story with chrome by the way and that\'s how stainless steel resists corrosion.
That\'s more information than anyone wanted now isn\'t it? :flip:
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