I’ve been looking at using something other than Humbrol acrylics recently, as I’m getting increasingly frustrated with them – so far this year I’ve had at least 6 builds that I’ve ruined with this paint. The shop down the road from me sells Tamiya Acrylics and I’ve often considered getting some BUT – everything I’ve read on the internet about them would indicate that they are no good for brush-painting.
It makes me laugh actually, if you google the question and read the forum threads that come up in the searches – there’s always somebody that says… ‘’It’s rubbish, buy paint X instead’’. To be fair – most of the comments are like that*. But I do wonder if it’s actually the case, or if it’s people just repeating what they’ve READ on the net, and have never actually used them.
And why is it then that you also see the occasional comment like… ‘’Have you seen Mr X’s work – he does Awesome models with Brush painted Tamiya Acrylics…’’
Confusing…
So, never being one to be told what I can and cannot do – I’ve decided to try it for myself. I’m going to build up a few paint hacks and try out some tests. I’ll share them in this thread and hopefully offer up some objective evidence – at least that way if some newbie to the hobby posts up the same question in Google, it might help them make their own decision.
So far my initial trials have been pretty positive
Cheers
Stuart
*of course these people could be right – we’ll see. (Just realised I should’ve put this up as a blog post…)
