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AntonovAN-2
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Hi I have recently started to do some modeling, and have just got the BBMF Airfix gift set, and have a few questions for you, firstly what is the difference between acrylic and enamel paints as up to now i have only used enamel and the kit comes with acrylic, secondly has anyone built the BBMF gift set and if so are there any problems with it?

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Acrylic paints are water based, enamel are oil based. Id ditch the ones in the gift set, they really are pants. Enamels will be better if your brush painting, and they are more resistant than acrylics, which are better for airbrushing. All of the kits in the current BBMF set are new toolings, so will be good fitting and look great. But be careful with the Lancaster, if you get one part misalined with the fuselage/main spar assembly the whole thing wont fit properly! So test/dry fit everything first.

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A40-BP wrote:Id ditch the ones in the gift set, they really are pants.
A40


Having collected quite a few of these gift set pots, i cant agree with what you say. However, i understand that Humbrol paint production has returned to the UK and have improved even more. There are also modellers here who use a brush with Acrylics(Derek F) with stunning results.
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I found brush painting far easier with acrylics than I ever did with enamels - much easier to work with and because they dry much faster, you don't get dust settling into the paint.
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I've always brush painted and airbrushed acrylics and see no reason for me to ever change to enamels. :smile:

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Enamels are smelly and horrible, I only use them when I need to, I use Tamiya Acrylics religiously with a few others.
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Deacon wrote:I've always brush painted and airbrushed acrylics and see no reason for me to ever change to enamels. :smile:

Then you can only be about 10 because those of us who'd have been doing this for half a century (aaaaaah) only had enamels or paints made using crushed blackberries!
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Maisie wrote:Enamels are smelly and horrible, I only use them when I need to, I use Tamiya Acrylics religiously with a few others.


Tamiya acrylics are hardly odourless though. :sick:

I use Xtracrlyix, Humbrol, Revell and Citadel colours and those little pots in kits. I try and avoid Tamiya because of the smell. Like most others I started using enamels 35 years ago when it was all you got but I'm glad I don't use them any more.

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I brush paint all my models. Almost exclusively with Acrylics as they brush beautifully, and dry quickly. I use Enamels for Weathering along with Oil paints.
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iainpeden wrote:
Deacon wrote:I've always brush painted and airbrushed acrylics and see no reason for me to ever change to enamels. :smile:

Then you can only be about 10 because those of us who'd have been doing this for half a century (aaaaaah) only had enamels or paints made using crushed blackberries!


Nope, I just try to keep the dark days of childhood memories of painting with enamels in the dim recesses of my mind. :wink:

I of course meant since returning to the hobby. :tongue:

Besides, Vallejo paints came on the market in 1992, so that's 12 years ago, then add 3 years for learning to use a brush rather than suck the paint out of the bottle, that makes me 15! But you're right
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Deacon wrote:Besides, Vallejo paints came on the market in 1992, so that's 12 years ago, then add 3 years for learning to use a brush rather than suck the paint out of the bottle, that makes me 15!


Think you need to get back to school wi maths like that!!! :handbag:
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Yep hate to break this to you but 1992 is actually 22 years ago...! :dizzy:

Yeah, doesn't seem it somehow!

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Going slightly away from the paint theme, can you remember the "glue" in the little foil tubes? I once had one split in my mouth while modelling - tasted awful.
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Yes I can, still available just not a lot of good for precision! Having said that wish I could find a way to stop the needle applicators clogging, got about 3 of them and still had to resort to taking it out and using a cocktail stick!

Going back to the paint theme though, one thing that hasn't been mentioned is be careful mixing them. If you paint on acrylic and then enamel (or is it the other way around? :dunno: ) you'll end up with the paint reacting. Whichever you decide to use stick with it, and make sure you seal a layer with a varnish before using a different type of paint :smile:

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Craig, if the needle applicator gets clogged I find fuse wire is a good way to clear it.
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I just use a match - works a treat!




Craig wrote:Yes I can, still available just not a lot of good for precision! Having said that wish I could find a way to stop the needle applicators clogging, got about 3 of them and still had to resort to taking it out and using a cocktail stick!

Going back to the paint theme though, one thing that hasn't been mentioned is be careful mixing them. If you paint on acrylic and then enamel (or is it the other way around? :dunno: ) you'll end up with the paint reacting. Whichever you decide to use stick with it, and make sure you seal a layer with a varnish before using a different type of paint :smile:

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iainpeden wrote:Going slightly away from the paint theme, can you remember the "glue" in the little foil tubes? I once had one split in my mouth while modelling - tasted awful.


See, that's strange, because glue normally tastes so nice :lol:

I hope you're not glueton intolerant....

Sorry Ian, couldn't resist.

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Well gave it a go with acrylics on the mk19 spitfire and I have to say I prefer it to enamle so gunna switch

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RRconway wrote:
iainpeden wrote:Going slightly away from the paint theme, can you remember the "glue" in the little foil tubes? I once had one split in my mouth while modelling - tasted awful.


See, that's strange, because glue normally tastes so nice :lol:

I hope you're not glueton intolerant....

Sorry Ian, couldn't resist.

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Don't worry - I was about 6 at the time and learnt very quickly from the experience! Got a telling off from my dad at the time - not because of the potential poisoning I had self inflicted but because he was working on an Airfix Halifax he wanted to get finished and didn't have any other tubes of glue.
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Usually I use Tamiya or Vallejo acrylic paints, but 2 years ago I received that Xtracrylix set as a gift. Never used Tamiya and Vallejo again.

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I've started it not so long time ago and haven't done a lot yet. So, I'm aslo new here.

Remember that awesome feeling when made my first model :smile:

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