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Black is the obvious choice, but there is lots of room for creativity. Some manholes fade to a light gray. Others get a "dirty" black, as strange as that sounds. This winter lots of manholes have acquired "salt" gray or streaks of anti-ice spray. Now and then a manhole near the middle of the road is painted with one or two ribbons of yellow. Few are centered. A neat detail is a manhole with smudgy yellow stripe(s) [or remnants] that has turned a bit, placing the stripe(s) at an angle to the stripes on the street.

I often see questions like this. It's not that you can't get a good response here but why not just go out and look at a manhole cover, railroad track, sidewalk, street or whatever object you're seeking info about? If it's available, there's no better source than the real thing. Take a notebook, a tape measure and a camera. First hand knowledge may reveal many things that you might not not have considered.

Originally Posted by ROZY 205:

I have some gold colored manhole covers that need to be painted before being placed. They will be going on black roads. Looking for suggestions on paint to use & color. Thank you in advance for your replies.

          ROZY205

here is my one as experiment.

using a vectorcut manhole and applying a layer of graphite using a 4B pencil make the surface look shine like a raw steel.

Andre.

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