How to brush paint metal colours smoothly?

[yellow15]

hi all,
a question re brush painting the tamiya metal colours. How do you paint it so the paint will look smooth and same colour?? For example, when i paint the flat aluminium or silver chrome colours, the result doesn't look good esp on large areas.. there are always some blocks which is darker and some which is lighter..... how can i avoid this? is that i have to shake the paint for a longer time before i paint it? or don't shake it at all? or ???? i notice i don't have this problem if i use a spray can and i suppose a airbrush will fix it as well but i don't have an airbrush.

Richard

[freakray]

You could airbrush it and get a smoother result, yes, but a lot also has to do with the mixing.
Just shaking the paint is not going to be sufficient, you really should stir the paint with a toothpick or something to agitate all the residue at the bottom of the jar, just shaking is not going to lift this into the solvent.
Heavier particles of pigment will sink to the bottom of the jar during storage and you need to stir the paint to lift these and stir them up.

Ray

[Veyron]

I've had the best luck brush painting Testors metalizers, use a brush that holds a lot of paint and flow it on rather thick and work fast. Like Ray said, nothing will look as good as airbrushing.