Re: Anyone use Liquitex Paints?

I use a combination of Ral Partha's acryclics, Testor's various oil 
based paints, and the superior (IMHO for military modelling - due to 
vast colour range) Tamiya acrylic paints. I also have used Humbrol 
oil based. The problem is no one range of paints gives you the full 
range of colours, shades, or texturing (thickness, etc) that you want 
so you end up buying into multiple ranges. I also use acrylic 
artist's inks for shading. And I've used high percision Staedler 
drafting pens for detailing.

I find Tamiya makes a fair sized acrylic paint in a good colour 
range. If it has any issue, it is that one must make sure they are 
well shaken and maybe stirred if they've been sitting - colour 
components tend to settle in levels and this means if you paint from 
the cap of the paint jar, then the bottom, you get a slight variance 
in colour unless mixing was thorough. But, when covered with testor's 
dullcote, they seem to hold up to dropping and other abuse reasonably 
well. 
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