Vallejo Model Color - Smoke

Smoke is a translucent, smoky brown-black glaze that's one of the quiet heroes of the range — for tinting shadows, dirtying up surfaces, deepening metallics and adding grime without hiding the detail underneath. It shades rather than covers.

At a glance

Best for

• Tinting shadows and recesses
• Grime, soot and exhaust staining
• Deepening and toning down metallics

Glaze it over bright steel to instantly knock back the shine into used, oily metal, or pool it into recesses for smoky, believable shadow.

A translucent workhorse for shading and grime. Pair it with your metallics and the wider Vallejo Model Color range.