Vallejo Model Color Natural Steel is part of the Model Color program of the Vallejo brand and is a dark metallic acrylic paint in a 17ml. eyedropper jar.
The color of Vallejo Model Color Natural Steel (70864) is comparable with: RAL: 9006; Humbrol 56; Revell: 99; Tamiya XF56; Testors Model Master 1781; Vallejo Model Air: 71062.
The Model Color formula consists of permanent pigments for detailed work; this dark metallic color is also completely lightfast and opaque, with the exception of the fluorescent and transparent colors that are semi-opaque.The colors have been chosen with the help and advice of the best model painters from different countries.The Model Color program contains a huge range of colors and also has an interesting collection of mediums and varnishes specially designed for Miniature and Model painting.
This dark metallic color can also be thinned with other mediums to achieve glazes and other layer applications. Professional model painters always work with a wet brush and dilute the paint with water and matte medium, then apply it in several thin layers to simulate depth and shadows. The consistency of Model Color ensures an extremely smooth and tight paint film without any traces of the brush strokes. Errors can be corrected with water or with a little alcohol, if this is done immediately. The dark metallic color can be easily applied with a brush and dried to a matt result.
This metallic color has a soft sheen, because it is part of the iridescent metallic series of Vallejo paints. The gloss of this dark metallic color will increase as soon as a high gloss (glossy) varnish is applied.
The "eyedropper" (or eye dropper) ensures that the amount of paint can be dosed very easily and the paint does not dry out as quickly. The uniqueness of this dark metallic paint is that it comes in a so-called "eyedropper" jar in which 17ml. acrylic paint. Of course it can always happen that the opening sometimes gets a bit clogged. You can easily solve this by clearing the opening with a needle or thin cocktail stick.
