Painting a Britannia metall ship’s wheel to look like mahogany

kingkahn1950

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I’m working on the Model Shipways Constitution and the ship’s wheel is Britannia metal. While I’m making the stand out of wood, I eventually need to paint the whole assembly a mahogany color. I like to use Acrylic paint in my airbrush. I’ve put a primer on the metal parts. Any suggestions?
 
Were you able to find a solution for this?

It looks like mixing red with a hint of green might darken the red and add that slightly purpleish hue of mahogany.
 
kingkahn1950 said:
I’m working on the Model Shipways Constitution and the ship’s wheel is Britannia metal. While I’m making the stand out of wood, I eventually need to paint the whole assembly a mahogany color. I like to use Acrylic paint in my airbrush. I’ve put a primer on the metal parts. Any suggestions?
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I'd use Tamiya Desert Yellow XF-59 (which is an ochre/brown) as a base and then play with their clear red and clear yellow (or acrylic inks) in very thin and transparent layers building up gradually to the colour that looks right.

I've done this successfully with faint darker brown streaks over the basecoat for grain effects but you may not need that in your scale?

As always, practice/test on a piece of primed scrap material first.
 
Try using a burnt umber paint. I think it would work with the Desert Yellow that Smithy suggested. I have use a burn umber oil paint over an acrylic and it works well over a yellow or brown. The oil paint will take a while to dry.
 
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