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| Tweet Topic Started: May 26 2017, 11:34 PM (302 Views) | |
| kingofmen | May 26 2017, 11:34 PM Post #1 |
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Sorry if this has been asked before, but is there a US source for the Mil-Spec line of enamel model paints? TIA. |
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Kevin Callahan Auburn WA USA Visit the re-energized 72 Land blog at http://72land.blogspot.com/ All hail 1:72! | |
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| Chuck1945 | May 27 2017, 03:21 AM Post #2 |
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Is this the Alclad line? If so the same question appeared on Hyperscale and the answer seems to be that they are not yet available in the US |
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Chuck Eastern WA, USA Finished 2018: Eduard Spitfire IXc, VIII, Monogram/Starfighter BFC-2 On the active bench: Eduard Bf 110C, Hasegawa B-24D, SH P-40E | |
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| kingofmen | May 27 2017, 03:57 AM Post #3 |
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1) Yes it is. 2) Bummah. |
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Kevin Callahan Auburn WA USA Visit the re-energized 72 Land blog at http://72land.blogspot.com/ All hail 1:72! | |
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| dixieflyer | May 27 2017, 04:35 PM Post #4 |
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OK, I know what you're talking about now. Yep, I asked the guy on the Facing Book if they'd be available here, and he said no. Right now it seems that "Mr. Paint" is the thing. Warren |
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| kingofmen | May 27 2017, 07:37 PM Post #5 |
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Well, if the Mr Paint line is indeed the thing, do any of you know of the best source for THEM in the US? I've never used any of them before. TIA |
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Kevin Callahan Auburn WA USA Visit the re-energized 72 Land blog at http://72land.blogspot.com/ All hail 1:72! | |
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| Chuck1945 | May 27 2017, 08:05 PM Post #6 |
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I did get a selection of Mr Paint a few weeks, pricy, but 30ml bottles instead of the 10ml current Tamiya size bottles, Sprayed quite well straight from the bottle. One source (where I got mine):http://www.hobbyworld-usa.com/ very quick service |
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Chuck Eastern WA, USA Finished 2018: Eduard Spitfire IXc, VIII, Monogram/Starfighter BFC-2 On the active bench: Eduard Bf 110C, Hasegawa B-24D, SH P-40E | |
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| Chuck1945 | May 27 2017, 08:08 PM Post #7 |
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Also, FWIW. the owner of the Spokane Hobby Town was telling me last month that Hobby Town had worked a deal with Gunze and would begin carrying all the Gunze paints. No clue regarding the veracity of that claim |
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Chuck Eastern WA, USA Finished 2018: Eduard Spitfire IXc, VIII, Monogram/Starfighter BFC-2 On the active bench: Eduard Bf 110C, Hasegawa B-24D, SH P-40E | |
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| kingofmen | May 27 2017, 10:57 PM Post #8 |
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Chuck: Hopefully the Hobbytown rumor is true; there is one of them not too far from me. Also, I note that the bottles on the Hobbyworld USA site all say acrylic. I assume this is "acrylic lacquer", which I've heard some talk about? See what I mean, I'm really unfamiliar with other paints outside my Xtracolour bubble! I'm not really interested in acrylics as such, since I've had trouble with them in the past. Having lacquer as the solvent might at least mean they have a chance of sticking to the plastic, though. Any experiences you've had with this paint line would be appreciated. They do seem to cover most of the RAF bases, though stronger in modern US and USSR colors. No Italian, French, or Japanese? I'll be making a more thorough look through the options later. |
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Kevin Callahan Auburn WA USA Visit the re-energized 72 Land blog at http://72land.blogspot.com/ All hail 1:72! | |
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| Chuck1945 | May 28 2017, 12:29 AM Post #9 |
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I can see the basis for confusion. My understanding is that acrylic lacquers can havea water-alcohol base (solvent) such as Tamiya or the Gunze Aqueous paint, possibly water based although I don't have any examples or solvent based such as Gunze's Mr Color. Mr Paint falls in the last category, solvent based acrylic lacquer. Since my experimental use was straight from the bottle (they are quite well thinned and the web site I found that discussed them also suggested primer). In my test (I used RAF Light Earth and Light Green to counter shade the lower wing of a Gladiator that had previously been painted with Tamiya) they sprayed fine although like traditional lacquer paint, when I went bck with a fine brush to fix some overspray the new coat tended to dissolve the first coat. There was no reaction that I could determine with the original coat of Tamiya paints |
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Chuck Eastern WA, USA Finished 2018: Eduard Spitfire IXc, VIII, Monogram/Starfighter BFC-2 On the active bench: Eduard Bf 110C, Hasegawa B-24D, SH P-40E | |
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