You know, when you are outside, on a sunny day, and you see a man-hole cover, or a sewer grate…
What color IS that? I can’t tell. Looks like some kind of mutant dark-dark purple with some rust color thrown in. Almost a bluish.
When I do some city scenery, I know I want those things to look right.
Anybody have any ideas?
Rob
Look to the military modelers to get metallic colors right. There are several different versions of “gunmetal” that could work for manhole covers. I haven’t gotten that far yet, but I’d probably just use dark grey as a base, with a wash of oily black and a drybrushing of burnt sienna.
Manhole covers are cast iron or steel. They are painted black at the factory. If I were going to have one on a rialroad I think I would paint it rail brown and then add very thin layers of black until it gave a blackish hue to it