Paint for acolyte armor

[YouCantBe Sidious]

What brand and type of paint is everyone using to get the nice dark metallic look for their armor?

My first go was with automotive paint, but it still appears a bit too light.

[TK Keith]

I am wondering the same thing! I think my first color, Rust-Oleum "Aluminum" was too bright.

[Benjamin Arendt]

I did mine with rubh`n`buff silver leaf. The parts came black, I just rubbed over it. Take a look in my wip, you see how it looks like.

[TK54321]

I wondered the same but then again I've seen many too bright acolytes (even if it matches the mask). So I might experiment in my own direction.

 

When I look at the videos I imagine the artists chose a different material than the Jedi armor counterpart, and I believe it isn't regarded as a metal armor. I will try a few paints I find on scrap abs but I'll definitely go for the reference material look rather than follow the CRL at risk for not getting approved. In-game the armor is way more black and the undersuit isn't much darker than the armor at all in the trailers, unlike the robe. I think silver paints are more of "realism freestyle". Like overweathered E11's though the screen used were not so weathered at all. But in this case if it is metal armor, I would say a dark dark gray would be close. But regarding silver layer under another color I choose to believe canon-wise it wasn't a silver armor that the dude took out for a layer of spray paint. It seems integrally black.