{"id":7657,"date":"2026-03-26T12:25:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7657"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:25:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:25:45","slug":"more-brass-paint-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7657","title":{"rendered":"More brass paint trials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have done further trials with my Vallejo Old Gold paint mixed 2\/3 -1\/3 with Vallejo Natural Steel then let down for spraying with Johnsons Klear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first two photos I used the same brass safety valve cover as a comparison piece but realised after taking the photos that the brass had tarnished slightly in the intervening time since I did the last comparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I used an image editor (Picasa 3) to add some contrast to the same image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then I took another photo after polishing up the brass valve cover again so the comparison is more like for like than the first photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And again with a some contrast added<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brass Paint Comparision<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have reached the conclusion that it is possible with good preparation of the whitemetal casting to make a decent fist of painting it with brass paint as long as there is no actual brass in close proximity to allow a direct comparison. I thought that I would pain the dome too to see what a difference a bigger subject made and while it looks okay to use it in practice I would need to fill some holes in the rear of the casting that you cannot see in the images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have done further trials with my Vallejo Old Gold paint mixed 2\/3 -1\/3 with Vallejo Natural Steel then let down for spraying with Johnsons Klear. In the first two photos I used the same brass safety valve cover as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-n-tricks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7662,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657\/revisions\/7662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}