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  • From: Indiana USA
LifeColor Acrylic Paints
Posted by BlackTulip109 on Sunday, March 1, 2015 4:42 PM

Also discovered these paints from Italy still learning about them they have all kinds of colors for WW2 aircraft, armour, and naval.

Anyone have experience with these?

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Posted by fightnjoe on Monday, March 2, 2015 8:33 AM

I am just beginning with these as well.  Two things I have found.

-Too much thinner is very bad.  i went by a recommendation that I had seen online and mixed it 50/50 with its own thinner.  I felt I was in a marathon with all the running.  Less is more with this paint.  Put a drop of thinner for every six or seven drops of paint.  If you spatter add more but drop by drop.  

-It looks like it sprays best over itself.  My first attempt I sprayed over my normal base coat (Rustoleum Flat Black) with miserable results.  i got frustrated and put it down for a couple of days.  I went back and sprayed again after a couple of days to try to figure it out and it sprayed very nice as long as it was over the parts I had failed at before.

I am learning more each time and hope to figure out how to blend it like I do enamels but that will come with time, I hope.

I do hope this helps some.

Joe

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Monday, March 2, 2015 10:50 AM

fightinjoe -

Are you using Lifecolor's brand thinner?

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  • From: Indiana USA
Posted by BlackTulip109 on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 10:25 PM

Didn't know they had one I used the Vallejo Thinner and it worked.

I'll check emodels to see if they have it.

Thanks

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