Here's what you need to know about protective coatings for metal to achieve professional, long-lasting results.

Optional step: If the rust colour isn’t orange enough, you can mix a little bright orange paint into the pigment mix. Or drybrush some orange onto the rust. It’s really that easy.

When there's an area of rust that can be handled at sea, sailors will simply scrub it off and cover it with Ameron PSX-700, a paint that sells for $250 a gallon. It's not just the ships that are ...