anywhere i can get wide variety of tamiya enamel and mr hobby lacquer paint? lacquer is easy but tamiya enamel paint is hard to find

and one more question

how to get this kind of effect for the nozzle and tip of the gun barrel? possible to do this with hand brush only?

tried google but is not very helpful



This post has been edited by amduser: Apr 27 2014, 10:51 PM

what is the effect called?

leveling thinner is expensive, i'm sure you can use it to thin your paint, but if you are using handpaint and thin with thinner, it might "eat" away your base paint (if there's any) because leveling thinner is very strong

best is to use the thinner that belongs to the type of paint, lacquer use mr hobby thinner, enamel use zippo or enamel thinner, acrylic use acrylic thinner

i not sure what you mean by "washes" and i dont use GW citadel, so far i only tried mr hobby lacquer and enamel

you can use Modo color top coat as coating using airbrush, thin it with mr Hobby leveling thinner, i've been using it for 3 of my ship models and the results is satisfying and modo color is slightly cheaper price for the volume it offer compare to mr hobby top coat

if you are using lacquer type top coat, make sure your acrylic or enamel base paint is completely dried and cured, if not the thinner of the top coat might "eat" the base color

since you are going to spray flat clear, you can spray from a bit further distance, this will let the paint to partially dried before reaching the kit giving more rough finishing, but that's depends on what kind of model you are spray on and your preference

if you are using airbrush, you probably dont need to worry much on the reaction with acrylic paint, just make sure your acrylic base is completely dried and cured then you will be fine

when you spray with airbrush dont spray too much layer at once and after spray dont touch it and let it dry first, after the first layer dried you can proceed to spray another slightly thicker layer depends on your preference

i dont like spray can, it is hard to control the amount of paint output and their very expensive and doesn't last long

spray can in Ace Hardware or those hardware shop is cheap, but they are using industrial thinner to thin the paint so it might melt plastic, and those paint isn't really suitable for model kit