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<p>[QUOTE="The Meat man, post: 21916919, member: 135271"]I love a good patina - For AE, green or blue is really nice, also anything from warm light-brown to almost black. Glossy is better. Golden is nice. For silver, iridescent is okay, but nothing beats "old cabinet" toning IMO.</p><p>I generally don't like an earthen or "desert" patina mostly because while it may highlight some elements of a design it inevitably obscures some too. Also, I've seen at least one case where an artificially applied "desert" patina was used to hide tooling.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="The Meat man, post: 21916919, member: 135271"]I love a good patina - For AE, green or blue is really nice, also anything from warm light-brown to almost black. Glossy is better. Golden is nice. For silver, iridescent is okay, but nothing beats "old cabinet" toning IMO. I generally don't like an earthen or "desert" patina mostly because while it may highlight some elements of a design it inevitably obscures some too. Also, I've seen at least one case where an artificially applied "desert" patina was used to hide tooling.[/QUOTE]
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