SneakyJay

Can't help you with paint selection SneakyJay, but your avatar scares the hell out of me!!!!!!!

yeah, please change your avatar mate ! 

No love for Lord Tones? Haha

Has anyone had experience with vallejo liquid gold - copper paint?

You didn't mention if your Victory model is plastic or a timber model.  I reckon you cant beat real copper hull plating.

 

This was my HMS Sirius under construction a few years ago with copper hull plating.

 

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It's a plastic model. Added it to the main post for clarification.

I did get some copper tape to try do something similar  but at a 1:180 scale I found it too finicky. I have a 1:96 constitution which I'll probably try it out on when I get started on it

Thanks

Jay, one of the best looking copper paints is from Alclad II. Its a lacquer and should be air-brushed (no brush painting with it) over a primer coat. The surface should be sealed and smooth. Their site is alclad2.com. Two shops in New Castle NSW stock it, according to the Alclad website

Thanks. I had a look at alclad but wasn't sure about all the prep involved. At the moment the hull is painted with Tamiya Copper paint, but I'm not very happy with it, I also doubt that it's sufficient for alclad to go over (?). Also I think I'd prefer brushing over airbrushing because I've come quite far with the model before this decision, and don't want to ruin what I've done.

Anyone able to give advice for the best paint for painting the copper sheathing on my Airfix HMS Victory? It's already got a coat of Tamiya paint but I'm not too happy with the colour.

Thanks