Lubricating grease material

[jblaze]

Hi guys,
I'm trying to do a realistic render of a threaded steel pipe with grease on it but I'm not sure what material to use for maximum real life appearance.

PS I'm looking for this kind of end result.

[guest84672]

The first question is do you model the grease on the pipe?

[jblaze]

Yes, I've modeled the grease as a separate body in the model to ease the material application.
So far my best results are with liquid chardonnay and liquid coffee. I've used the first one for "clean"/newly applied grease and the second one to represent the used/old grease.
Of course I'm open for other suggestions .

[Finema]

Hi
You can use Shiny Cloudy Plastic material and play with the Diffuse Transmission color and Rugosity transmission and choose more or less transparency.
In attachment a simple example>

[jblaze]

Finema,
that looks pretty good. Can you upload the bip file? I played around with the Shiny Cloudy plastic material but didn't get even close to your result.

Thanks!