| Sapeur | 15 Sep 2014 10:11 a.m. PST |
May I ask which paint people use for 'bronze' coloured cannon barrels please? |
| wrgmr1 | 15 Sep 2014 3:34 p.m. PST |
Having just finished 16 Prussian Napoleonic cannon recently, here is what I did.
I start with Decoart Venetian Gold.
First Highlight, half Venetian Gold and half Delta Ceramcoat 14K gold.
Second Highlight, Ceramcoat 14K Gold. [URL=http://s219.photobucket.com/user/tjm3/media/Calpe%20Prussians/IMG_0338.jpg.html]
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| dBerczerk | 15 Sep 2014 3:57 p.m. PST |
I paint my gun barrels dark brown. When dry, drybrush with Games Workshop Burnished Gold. If they end up too bright, I give them a wash with watered-down Games Workshop Flesh Wash or Future Floor Polish with a tiny bit of diluted burnt umber acrylic paint. |
| Bandolier | 15 Sep 2014 4:59 p.m. PST |
I use the Foundry Bronze Barrel triad. First the base colour, then a black wash, then the next 2 layers. It's subtle and not that bright, polished gold look that you see quite often. |
| rmaker | 15 Sep 2014 5:00 p.m. PST |
If they end up "too bright" it means you have artillery NCO's who know their duty. And I use Ceramcoat Kim Gold. |
| Sapeur | 15 Sep 2014 9:01 p.m. PST |
Thank you for the suggestions.
Will experiment a little. |
| spontoon | 16 Sep 2014 12:16 p.m. PST |
Once games with a bloke who painted all his gun barrels a light grey/green. He'd seen the guns at Gettysburg National Battlefield Memorial and assumed that what colour they should be. We informed him that's weathering, but I don't know if he ever changed them. |
| Greystreak | 16 Sep 2014 12:19 p.m. PST |
Like Bandolier, I used the Foundry Bronze Barrel triad, with some dilute Windsor & Newton Ink washes ('Peat Brown'). The results look like this:
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| plutarch 64 | 17 Sep 2014 3:20 a.m. PST |
Foundry Bronze Napoleonic barrel for me also:
Although I did use Vallejo bronze with a GW brown wash for these in 15mm:
More here for anyone interested: tinmountain.blogspot.com.au |
| plutarch 64 | 17 Sep 2014 3:37 a.m. PST |
With an Agrax Earthshade wash between the second and third use of the Foundry triad in my case, I should hasten to add. I can't stop staring at Greystreak's second photo – it really does look as though it was taken in a museum… |
| von Winterfeldt | 21 Sep 2014 6:19 a.m. PST |
the older the barrel the more darker it would get to appear almost blackish, causing confusion for the Austrian Army where a lot of people believe that the barrels were black but they were brass indeed |
gets started with Flintloque.
