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Post by fatfingers on Dec 5, 2007 23:20:22 GMT
How do chaps,
Anyone here use or used LifeColor paint? I'm thinking of getting some for my rail warfare GB item, and was wondering how they are for spraying etc.
Thanks in advance ;D
Cheers, Steve
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Post by Thunderjug on Dec 6, 2007 9:25:19 GMT
If you can still get them. The range of colors was always the attraction but the problem with them was how one color would spray fine and another would make you throw down the airbrush in disgust. I found Halfords screen wash was about the best thing to thin them with but you still got problems.
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Post by kiwichappers on Dec 6, 2007 14:59:34 GMT
I saw a rack full of lifecolor last weekend in Jamiesons in Glasgow with not a lot of dust on them. I found them to be very good to airbrush but seem to be very dependant on their own primer to get the correct colour. I also think, based more on intuition rather any empirical test, that they are temperature sensitive. When spraying in the summer i.e. above about 22c, I thinned with distilled water and below this temperature either Tamiya thinners or Isopropyl with Tamiya as the preference. Here's one sprayed with Lifecolor
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Post by Paul Senter on Dec 11, 2007 20:45:56 GMT
Steve If you are looking for a good paint to spray with try the Vallejo Model Air the range is not enormous but plenty big enough and they spray direct from the bottle with no thinning required. Completed a Me 262 for SMW 07 using them and was very happy with the results. Paul
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Post by fatfingers on Dec 11, 2007 21:34:51 GMT
Paul,
Nice model mate ;D
I've seen the model air paints around, might have to give them a try.
Cheers, Steve
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Post by foxy on Feb 17, 2008 9:35:15 GMT
I use life color(colour) a lot, and its good for weathering as well. Goes well with spraying or with paint brush finishing, 'so recommend it'. Nice shades of US colours coming also/or out now lol.
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