Metallic Oily Steel is a dark, slightly warm steel with a grimy, used character built in — perfect for engine parts, exhausts, worn mechanisms and any metal that should look like it's seen hard service. Less shiny showroom, more working machine.

At a glance

Best for

• Engine parts, exhausts and mechanisms
• Worn, greasy metal
• Deep shadows within brighter steel

Drop it into the recesses of a silvered surface and the metal instantly looks oiled and hard-worked rather than freshly cast.

The grimy, hard-working steel. Pair it with a bright steel highlight and the wider Vallejo Model Color metallics.