Best Place To Purchase Paint

I can relate...I have the same problem here in the Greenville, SC area (about 1/2 way between Charlotte, NC and Atlanta,GA). There are 2 Hobby Lobby stores within reasonable driving distance, but their selection is extremely limited. I can't be of any help other than letting you know there are others of us in the same situation.

I live in Maryland and order all my paints from scalehobbyist.com.  Prices that local stores charge are ridiculous.

Ditto on Scalehobbyist.  As I use Vallejo, and I don't find them as easily, I also use MegaHobby.

Squadron and Sprue Brothers carry just about any kind of paint anyone would want.  Keep a list and buy in quantity what you need, so you don't get killed with shipping charges.

I hope you can find something locally to get what you want.  My "go to" paint brand went OOP just after I changed over to it, and I have had to find as many of my colors as possible online. The LHS owner that got me into Polly Scale/Aeromaster had to close down, and has some colors left in his storage unit at his home, and a couple of more distant, but, still drivable shops have some Rail Road Acrylic colors left, but, other than them, I have to search Ebay and Amazon for any colors I didn't get a large enough stock of. (I do have a ten year supply of just about every color)

Isn't there a place called Skyways, or something close, that the guys from up that way all say is the Mecca of plastic models for the northwest?

Yeah, Skyway was the name,,,,,,,here, this may help you find an LHS

www.modelshopsusa.com/.../Washington

Rex

My local craft store, a Michaels, has a selection of Testors paints (both enamels and acrylics).  Nowhere near as good a selection as my local hobby shops, but it is much closer than any LHS.  I must say, however, that the local hobby shops all carry an impressive selection of brands, types, and colors. I like to pick them up locally as I want to see the colors rather than just go by number.

There are so many new paints and paint sets that its getting very confusing.

They all look very interesting.

I really like the sets with gradations of one color, like the flesh sets. Yeah I know you can mix these yourself but its nice having it dome for you.

I did pick up the last issue of Model Railroading just for the paint article.

mitsdude

There are so many new paints and paint sets that its getting very confusing.

They all look very interesting.

I really like the sets with gradations of one color, like the flesh sets. Yeah I know you can mix these yourself but its nice having it dome for you.

I did pick up the last issue of Model Railroading just for the paint article.

This reply is a good rebuttal of other threads in other forums about how the model building hobby is dying. If it were indeed dying, we wouldn't have so many suppliers coming out with all these new products!  BTW, I used to use a lot of Model Railroad paint before the companies like Testors and Tamiya started putting out good colors for weathering, like grimy blacks and rust.