paints - subvert the paradigm

a couple of ideas for paints:

standard paints are acrylics, right? i don't know how much they cost
these
days (i'm still using a set of evil empire colours i bought 5 years
ago),
but you can also get acrylics intended for artists (they're like
easier-to-use oil paints). 'The Works' (in Oxford, anyway) is selling
sets
of acrylics quite cheap - 4 ukp for 12, 6 ukp for 18, with about 5 (?)
ml
of each colour. you'd probably have to water them down a bit for
painting
minis. anyway, there's an idea.

Boots has a line of cosmetics etc called '17'; one of the things in it
is
a nail varnish for clubbing, which as far as i can tell is clear but
fluorescent - it glows white under UV. like most nail varnishes, it's
suspended in some volatile organic solvent (propanone or propan-2-ol,
possibly), which might make it a pain to use on painted or glued figs,
but
it seems like an easy way of adding fluorescence (i seem to recall
people
wondering about this sort of thing). anyway, 3.5 ukp for a standard size
bottle. they also have some plain colours which change in sunlight, but
they're pinky and orangey, and thus of little military value :).

anyway, an object lesson in the benefits of being dragged round shopping
by your girlfriend :).

tom