Using craft paints

QUOTE: Originally posted by Scorn Does anyone else here use those cheaply priced paints you can buy in Wal-Mart or Hobby Lobby? You know, the ones you buy for <$.50 in the small plastic flip-top tubes. How would you use them for modeling? What would you thin them with? The reason why I am asking is I have a lot, but I can't seem to use them for anything but dio bases effectively. Any help or answer would be wonderful. Thank you very, very much!

i use them pretty much all the time seeing as how thats what i have the most access to, i cant really complain about them so far, i usually thin them with a little bit of water, depending on how thick or transparent i want the color. personnaly i use them for just about everything on the model, but if i can get away with it i also use dry pastels along with the paints which works rather nicely odd enough, at least for me it does especially when money is a bit of an issue.

I have heard of someone who uses them here, but my (one) experience with them was very disappointing... no adhesion to the model surface whatsoever, and it was like colored water when it hit the model... it just formed up into beeds on the body...

I don't think I would try it again...

You'd have to experiment and try thinning them with water or IPA. It they are the same thing as those powdered paints from grade school (whoa that takes me back, can't remember the name right now) they are probably useless for painting plastic unless you use some type of very absorbent primer.