Wade,
While posting several letters on this forum about a similar painting issue I'll gladly share what I have learned over many years.
First, the choice is certainly up to you but I have changed to acrylic paints and over the past ten years made several observations on their use. They are available at HobbyLobby, Walmart and like other acrylics sold in the craft departments. They are water soluable and non-toxic to a point, so that qualifies the use of them by my grand-daughters.
The next in the case for them is the ease of use and durability. I use them to airbrush all of my WW I and II aircraft with my newest A/B, a Badger 200 NH, bottom feed. Additionally they are easily applied with paint brushes as well and with a little practice you can learn to dry-brush and detail brush your figures and vehicles. Along with this idea is the fact that acrylics will mix with artist and billiard chaulks for weathering. This is a whole other subject.
Acrylic paint can be mixed about 50/50 with BLUE windshield wiper fliud to create a very smooth coat of paint on any plastic model and there are gloss colors available to finish aircraft with, all of my Navy planes were painted using this method and the results are really something.
If you prepare the model surface with a green scouring pad ( without the soap ) you cause the surface to have the paint adhere to it than if the surface were smooth. This will not ruin any details such as rivets, etc. as the scouring pads rides over the details by still scratches enough to make the surface ready.
The most important feature of these paints is that if you make a mistake the paint can be easily removed by simply scouring with a scouring pad and most of the paint will come off without using harsh chemicals as you would with laquers.
johncpo