lets talk about paint brand and type, i am new on this and i choose to buy Gaia colors....why?

because i think Gaia got serious nice and the colors is "alive".... question is how to differentiate it is enamel or acrylic. Most of blog and site i read suggested enamel over acrylic for hand paint, and i can only do hand paint since AB kit cost a bomb....

can please share?

I did tried on a piece or two though not on purpose and the results turns out weird if not odd as if the composition doesn't mix well hence it looks very inperfect thus the reason why i raised the question....anyway thanks for the help and clarification,

This post has been edited by Wira Hikari: Jul 14 2011, 10:48 AM

may i know if you airbrushed or spray canned?

just canned spray...huhuhu

can afford airbrush yet

on a side note, can any of you guys who use or used industrial paint (spray can) for top-coating tell me what brand or name of the paint you use? Thanks

for gloss clear i use anchor or samurai brand
for flat/matte, i dun find it yet....seems to heard that bosny has it but still i cant find it..huhuh

whats the difference between Mr Surfacer 500, 1000, 1200? which type for which situation?

Oh okay, thanks for the help

It means the smoothness of the surfacer: the higher the number, the smoother it is.

Eg, if u r building something very glossy like a new car model kit, use 1200. normal gundam semi gloss, use 1000. doing rough surface like iron cast effect on a tank, use 500.

It's not a must, but it will ease things up.

ic, thx for the info

Has anyone tried the camou spray can from Krylon? Saw this one from Ace hardware and not sure if this is any good.

hi guys, sorry for noob question.

how much panel lining is consider enough?

very good question. lemme direct another question back to you, what is 'enough' to you?

kits already come with lines. a majority of people will just line em and be happy with it. as it is a mere line, it can only hold a limited amount of ink in it before it starts to overflow. so i guess, there is not such problem as too much ink in your panel lines.

if you're talking about scribing however, and adding panel lines, that's another story. the sky's the limit as to how many lines you wanna add. after all, it is your perception of nice ma..

Gaia is neither acrylic nor enamel. It's lacquer, i believe. As to how to differentiate them, you could usually tell from the name. It will usually say acrylic, aqueous, or enamel on the bottle. If nothing's stated, it's usually lacquer. I'd advise asking the shop owner where you bought it from for confirmation.

Enamel is the best for hand painting since it dries the slowest. You could still use acrylic/lacquer with some drops of retarder to slow the drying process.

QUOTE(Madz.Madz @ Jul 18 2011, 01:19 PM)

Has anyone tried the camou spray can from Krylon? Saw this one from Ace hardware and not sure if this is any good.

Camo spray? You mean several different colors in ONE spray can?

This post has been edited by Parody: Jul 18 2011, 06:26 PM

I did bought the Krylon camo spray from ACE Hardware. Never tried it yet. Bought it because the green colour is nice.
The camo spray comes in many camo colours Parody eg dark green, khaki etc, not myriads of colours in one can

Anyone knws where can get Tamiya paint?
I looking for silver one. Or other that has stong bonding one. I plan to paint on my action figures.

Thanks

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Added on July 19, 2011, 1:40 amPlease dont direct me to Daisheng/ Toy city....i believe their paints already keep till rosak.

This post has been edited by Ayam-man: Jul 19 2011, 01:40 AM

yup, mostly Gaia paint are lacquer based...
example how it look:


since it is lacquer, it have smooth and good surface like spraying with spray paint type...
but it have strong smell, so please wear respiration mask while painting

i usually go for lacquer since enamel is too slow to dry(about 10-24hours)
acrylic i never try yet so i dont know how the good it is..

This post has been edited by nazrul90: Jul 19 2011, 06:47 AM

Oh I see. I thought it was already multiple colors in one can. Hahaha! I'm not even sure if that's possible. The label on the can seems to be misleading if you don't really read everything.

And here i thought it would be like the rainbow-colored gel pen, where it changes color as you write. Would be awesome if the camo spray worked that way.

Tamiya acrylic you can get from Tamiya Underground in OU. enamel you can find in icw, or with mgs2u.com

This post has been edited by shauno: Jul 20 2011, 12:22 AM