Painting irridium vehicles

I'm going to paint a set of vehicles Hammer's Slammers style. One problem, I
have never seen a piece of irridium. The online sites say "bluish white".

Anyone have any suggestions? I'm thinking steel with a blue ink glaze or maybe
silver with blue mixed in, but I'm really not sure.

TIA

Back in the days when I worked for an office supply store, I had the
opprotunity to see some irridium (it was used on the end of a fountain pen to
prevent wear).

As I recall it was a dull silver color similar to platinum.

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> Roger Books wrote:

> I'm going to paint a set of vehicles Hammer's Slammers style.

Hammer's Slammers is a no-nonsense unit that does not let anything get
in the way of collecting the victory bonus, so the vehicles will have the
appropriate camouflage pattern (which is unlikely to be bare metal). I think
only "Nameless" ever went into combat without paint
[either _Rolling_Hot_ or _Counting_the_Cost (the one where some rear
area people form a relief column)], as it was pressed into service as

> Roger Books wrote:

I agree that the vehicles probably should be camo-painted to make sense,
and certainly all the ones that the Warlords use for their big Slammers game
are, but there ARE a number of references in the books (IIRC) to a "dull
sheen" of Iridium armour (or some similar phrase) that implies they are
actually bare metal; I suppose this COULD be read as seeing patches of bare
armour where paint has been burned off....?

> On 31-Oct-01 at 10:03, Ground Zero Games (jon@gzg.com) wrote:

> I agree that the vehicles probably should be camo-painted to make

> Ground Zero Games wrote:

> >Roger Books wrote:

This is one of those areas where I allow myself the luxury of being wrong, as
it has been quite some time since I read it. Though I would not be surprised
if non-penetrating powergun hits polished the metal.