I know that Acrylics have been around awile, but I never knew how easy they are to work with till my Wife made the mistake of leaving her art supplies on my Model Table.
While working on my Panzer IV and cussing my Dear wife for cluttering up my table, I got the Idea why not try these, and Low and Behold I have a rather good looking tank.
I would advise anybody that has not tried these to give it a go, its worth it.
Now how to explaine to the Wife how she needs more Tan and Brown.

Did you thin these at all?

I have thought about trying as well since they are about $.77 for a 2 oz bottle while we pay 1.90 for a 1/3 oz bottle.

If you can get the thinning ratio down on these...it would give us at least 4 oz of usable paint as I am sure its about a 1-1 ratio.

On thinning these, I would suggest using Tamiya thinner, but should still save us some cash in the long run. Who is up to a lab experiment this weekend?

Howdy, Private...
Welcome to the Acrylics Lovers Club!!! I couldn't agree with you more...I'm sure that you will find that there is still a place for enamels and oils, but acrylics are much easier to work with...Experiment first before using on a subject though, just to make sure that they will achieve the effect that you are looking for...I've been experimenting with acrylic washes lately and have turned out some dandy looking results!!

Gunny

Yeah,
Welcome to the craft paint club. I love those things. Good color selection, easy to work with and really cheap. I use them a lot for detail painting and figure painting. I use a lot of the Plaid brand stuff. Link to page with link to color chart below.

Shaun


http://www.plaidonline.com/deptHome.asp?cat1ID=1

Thank God for Wal Mart, they have a great selection.
I find useing Alcohol works best for thinning, Im working on a wash right now, spray bottle maybe?

oils are best for figures (imo) because they arent affected as much by capillary action. acrylics, however, behave like a dream on any miniature plastic surface. Model Master's acylics have very thick color, so one bottle will last you a decent time. Tamiya's acrylics, however, are more thinnable in water and come in interesting varieties, so take your choice. I save the oils for my constantly failing attempts at the 1:35 human face, and even then I dab on some acrylic.

I have to agree with the general concensus on this one. I'm starting to work more with acrylics more for the fact of easy clean up and thining. The only drawback I've found so far is that there aren't as many colors as the enamels.

Wolfpack, as I had said earlier in my answer/post to your topic thread, I've been experimenting with acrylic washes...so far just plain old distilled water and a little liquid soap has seemed to work out best for me...I've come up with a dynomite little wash for figures that I've been using over enamel base colors that really makes the fig come alive...I've had the best luck with the tube style acrylics from the local art supply store, seems that spending a little extra dough does pay off in this case. Just my two cents, some methods work better for others.

Gunny

Wolfpack6 -

I go along with Gunny"s comments. As an "old" figures painter, my sons and I have used acrylics for quite a while and love the results, especially the ease of clean-up. We were painting the Warhammer figures (primed pewter, acrylics work great). Also, take a look at the Games Workshop line, they tend to be a little pricey and I now like Model Master more, but they have a variety of some more interesting colors (if you can get past the weird names; red gore, bleached bone, rotting flesh, etc.). Their "ink washes" are also very nice to work with. Hope this helps,

Blade48mrd

I tried to look for something approximating a FS color chart to craft acrylic conversion., to no avail. Anyone know of such a beast? It'd be best if it correlated multiple brands to FS / RLM colors...

Mika

Mike, unfortunately I haven't been able to locate a color comparison chart for art acrylics either...Might be a good thing to do though...maybe we could all work together to help develop a good chart for reference?

Gunny

Gunny,

Sounds good to me. I vaguely recall the availability of a FS color chip book from somewhere - any ideas?

Thanks,
Mika

I just go to the Wal Mart craft section, there not FS but they do have alot of colors.
And yes my Dear Sweet Loving wife turned into Godzilla when she found out I used all her paint and destroyed 1 of her Brushes for dry brushing