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Originally Posted by KCinKC46
You used to be able to find Alps printers on Ebay. Alps had gold and silver inks in their printers as standard colors.
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Yeah, good luck on finding the inks at a reasonable price (I have two Alps printers).
As others have said: Gradients, gradients, gradients.
You might take a look at these:
Gradients in GIMP
and
Gimp Gradient Editor
One important thing that often gets overlooked is that gradients can be applied to opacity, not just color changes.
I used a gradient pattern to produce some decals that simulated stainless steel fluting (a process called "shadowlining") on HO passenger cars. Took me quite a bit of trial/error to get the effect I wanted. The ultimate compliment was when I was showing a model off, and
every single person had to run a fingernail over the pattern area to see that it was a coloring effect and not actually fluted.
This of course caused some of the shadowlined areas to wear, but then the same thing happened on the prototype.
