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  • Member since
    July 2007
Money saving idea for paint
Posted by scorpr2 on Sunday, June 22, 2008 10:08 PM
I don't know if any of you guys have thought of this or tried it, but Friday I was going to buy another bottle of white paint to use for toneing down colors.  Stopped at Wally world first and checked out the paint isle.  I picked up a 1/2 pint can of Rustoleum flat white enamel paint for $3.89!  I usually have to pay $2.99 at Hobby Lobby and Hobbytown for just a small bottle.  Well, I tried it out today and I'm pretty happy with the results.  I used it to mix paints up for 2 a/c and one cv.  And the one thing I've noticed is it doesn't take as much of this paint to tone down the colors!  I've had some of my bottles of paints since 1987, so there's no telling how long the can will last me.  With as much white paint as I use there's no telling how much money this will save me.  And with gas prices so high now, that's one less trip I have to fork out for!
  • Member since
    November 2007
  • From: St. Louis Missouri
Posted by dallasa on Friday, July 4, 2008 12:20 PM

scorpr2,

 

IMO your find is 50 % good 50% bad. While Rustoleum is a good paint the pigment is not designed for model work. You will find that some times it will not mix well with your other paints, you will also find that it can cause problems with airbrushes, and finally the paint may not lay down right since the pigment is not ground as fine as model paints. Now with that said I have to say that it will work some times and with great results, but is it worth the risk? You can do what I do, get a cheap model (under $5) for practice and use the paints in question on it. I use a laquer that is designed for photographs for some models that are all acrylic with awesome high gloss results, but the sale laquer will not work with the enamels that I use, and there is not much rhyme or reason to what paints work with which so its all about experiementation.

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