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| Subject: | Re: Painting with Tamiya |  |
| Date: | Jan 10, 2005 |
| From: | Garry Ropchan | |
How interesting that this subject has come up. For only the 4th time in a decade I am painting a set of figures for a diorama. As I have a large volume of Tamiya acrylics paints that I have successfully airbrushed with I tackled brush painting the figures with these same paints.
It turned out to be a very frustrating experiences. Even though I had primed the figures (styrene) prior to brush painting I still found the brush painting experience very disappointing. It seems that the paint does not like to adhere to the figure easily unless it is applied too thick.
I don't like the paint unthinnned as it appears to be drying on my brush much too rapidly, however when I have thinned it to the point where it seems to come off the brush then it sometimes requires additional coats to be able to get full even coverage.
I was getting very frustrated with this but thanks to this thread it comes a some comfort that this may be due to the brand of paint that I am using!
I certainly do prefer acrylics for ease of clean up and may now have to consider acquiring a line of paints for brush painting my figures......
Any other thoughts would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Garry |
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 | Painting with Tamiya - Kaze - Jan 2, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Painting with Tamiya - Paul A. Owen - Jan 2, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Painting with Tamiya - Charles Nelson - Jan 2, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Painting with Tamiya - Steve Sutton - Jan 2, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Painting with Tamiya - Leo Lee - Jan 2, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Painting with Tamiya - Kaze - Jan 2, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Painting with Tamiya - Philippe - Jan 3, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Painting with Tamiya - Michael - Jan 4, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Painting with Tamiya - kenSing - Jan 6, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Painting with Tamiya - Paul Clark - Jan 7, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Painting with Tamiya - ken - Jan 8, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Painting with Tamiya - Garry Ropchan - Jan 10, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Painting with Tamiya - Charles Nelson - Jan 11, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Painting with Tamiya - bo@ti - Jan 12, 2005 |
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