Favorite brand of paint

got to be Humbrol for me... I started with them over 30 years ago and they are still the staple of my colour diet.

Model Master enamels.

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For airbrushing, I use almost exclusively Tamiya acrylics, and for hand painting and detail work, I love the coverage and ease of use of Citadel acrylics.

gunze-sangyo and tamiya acrylics and humbrol enamels

I use about 95% Testor's Model Masters - mostly because they are the easiest for me to get. I do make the extra effort to get my mits on Floquil's Reefer White though, as it's the only white short of Krylon that seems to work well for me...

Started 14 yrs ago with a testors military set from Kmart when I was 7 and bought four bottles of MM last Sat. I have Humbol from a few kit that if came with but... testors them testors now.

My favorite is PolyScale acrylics. Unfortunately the nearest hobby shop that carries them is about 35 miles away. The local Hungates chain store carries the Testor's Acryl line; if I need a jar in a hurry that's what I'll buy. But I like the texture of PolyScale better.

Maybe I should clarify that I'm primarily a ship modeler, and I don't use an airbrush much. I like the brushing consistency and finished appearance of PolyScale. Testor's Acryl is ok, but to me it seems a little syrupy by comparison.

I've also used Model Shipways acrylics quite a bit. I've had mixed success with them. Some of the individual colors work fine; they handle just about like PolyScale. Others - expecially the blue shades - have given me nothing but trouble. They refuse to mix up into a nice, brushable, opaque consistency. (It's possible I got a bad batch, or that they've been sitting in my shop too long.) Anyway, MS offers some colors mixed especially for sailing ships that aren't available elsewhere.

Testor's Acryl recently added a good range of ship colors. They seem to be the same colors that used to be available in the Floquil "Nautical Colors" line - which is now defunct. The nearest hobby shop that carries this particular series within the Testor's line is more than 100 miles away. Ouch.

I grew up with enamel model paints; my memories go back to Ulrich, Pactra, and Scalecoat. I bought my first water-based paints in the mid-seventies, when I was working my way through college in a hobby shop. It stocked the old PolyS latex line (which I still think was the best ever). Initially I had trouble getting them to cover adequately, but I quickly figured out that brushing water-based paint takes a different technique than brushing enamels. I got permanently hooked on acrylics when I noticed that my modeling sessions were lasting five or six hours, where I'd previously felt like taking a break after two or three. The reason: the smell of the enamel paint had been giving me mild headaches without my knowing it.

I still use enamels sometimes. I have yet, for instance, to find an acrylic gold or silver that can top the best of the enamels. But with those exceptions I'm a thorough convert to acrylics.

Polly Scale acrylics are my favorite. I also use Tamiya acrylics.
Harry

for airbrushing I use Tamiya acrylics due to ease of use and quick drying time. fumes aren't as bad as enamels. I also find them more economical than airbrushing enamels

for hand brushing can't beat Model Master enamels.

Simple choice after trying them all

Lets hear it for the rairly talked about, that "best kept secret"...yes folks lets hear it for


LIFECOLOUR

:) AJ

For me its Humbrol, I've found its easiest for me to work with.

Darren.

I use MM and Floquil enamels and lacquers almost exclusively.

I use Tamiya and Polly Scale for airbrushing and Humbrol and Vallejo for hand brushing detail work.

Model Master enamels for me all the way. For airbrushing the only acrylics I like are Tamiya.

Like Gino, I use ModelMaster & also Floquil enamels exclusively for air brushing plastic models. For brush painting small details or for figure painting, I really like the Vallejo acrylics as well.

Regards, Rick

Testors Model Master Enamels for me exclusively. As qmiester says, they do exactly what you want them to do. No issues thinning or with airbrushing. They adhere to the plastic great as well. Can't stand acrylics, too tempermental and a pain to work with.

I'll stick with enamels, thank you. Been using them for better than 40 years, they do what I want them to do and besides, I've got a prettty good stash of them. Started out with Pactra, Testors and Humbrol Authentics. Now it's Model Master, Testors and Humbrol (which aren't doesn't have the range of colors as the old Authentics)

if i can i generally like to use the humbrol enamel, becasue its the best at holding onto the plastic, it takes wear, and it coats very well. however, I can't find much of the stuff around here locally, and Im not gonna make an ineternet order for a few bottles of paint unless its a vitally necessary color, so most of the time I stick to polly scale, model master, and the floquil.

Tamiya Forever!!

I also buy a few bottles of Model Master Acryl. I've got a couple of rattle cans, too.

i use both Tamiya and Mr.Hobby( Gunze-Sangyo ) color paints.