Red Ochre is the light-rust specialist — the tone for early, fresher corrosion on exhausts, metal structures and bare fittings. Layer it with darker rust shades and you build genuinely convincing, uneven decay rather than a flat orange smear, and because the pigment stays vivid, washes across a whole vehicle come out looking real.

Best for

• Light rust on exhausts and metalwork
• The first layer of a build-up rust job
• Vivid rust washes across a vehicle

Start light with this and work darker rust tones over the top for corrosion that looks like it took years, not minutes.

The first layer of a convincing rust build. Pair it with darker rust tones and a thinner from the weathering range.