Beginner @ Customizing Help ID'ing Paint

Dr. Sorry I posted the wrong picture. But I think I saw a bright green transparent one. Anyways. The technique you say of Iron Man thats what I am aiming for. Although its not an iron man haha. I was searching on ebay for Testors because here in Puerto Rico there arent any hobby shops that have those paints. And I hate that testors doesn't have an online store. Does tamiya or model masters have online store ?

I buy my paints online from hobby stores or ebay, for convenience and to not pay california's stupid 10% tax. I think US sellers can ship to Puerto Rico at the normal domestic prices.

Here's a bottle for $7 shipped:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2oz-Testors-AZT ... SwOVpXWc~8

Here's Tamiya's online catalog: http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/ ... ylic_1.htm

Here's the clear green paint on amazon for about $5: https://www.amazon.com/Tamiya-Acrylic-G ... aint+clear

Also Model Masters have clear paints that can be applied with a brush.

It depends on what kind of effect you want. "Metallic", "Chrome", and "Pearl" all have very different finishes from each other.

To make a part look like colored metal, you would paint the part solid silver (a metallic) or chrome then use a transparent/clear/translucent color on top of it. People do it all the time for iron man customs.

Pearl isn't metallic (but it can look that way). The paint bottle in that picture is for a "pearl", it's not transparent. You can paint that over anything and it will be pearl green. Here's a figure painted with Pearl White http://www.figurerealm.com/customfigure ... w&id=77165 Note how it doesn't look like metal, it looks specifically like a pearl. And yeah, you can brush that Testors Pearl paint by hand, I used the same brand, it just takes a ton of coats to get a solid color. You have to work fast too because the paint wants to dry quickly. If you're still brushing when it decides to dry you're going to get thick ugly brush strokes. I suggest you use an airbrush.

Metallic usually refers to any metallic paint. Silver/gold/bronze paint is metallic. It roughly looks like metal.

Chrome has a mirror finish.

This is Testors's clear (transparent) green:


Like Omarali said, Tamiya also makes clear colors for hand painting, but they have about the same working time as the Testors Pearl I mentioned above so you get the same hassle. Airbrush is always recommended.

You can get Tamiya clear paint for brush application.