Paints

The combination of acrylic, lacquer, and enamel paints, along with airbrushing techniques, weathering effects, spray paints, and accessories, offers a comprehensive range of options for enhancing the realism, detail, and creativity of your scale model builds. Experimenting with different paints, techniques, and accessories allows you to customize your models and achieve professional-quality results.

Learn More About Our Hobby Paint Range

  1. Acrylic Model Paint: Acrylic model paint is water-based paint suitable for use on various modeling materials, including plastic, wood, metal, and resin. Acrylic paints offer quick drying times, easy cleanup with water, and versatility in application techniques such as brush painting, airbrushing, and drybrushing. They come in a wide range of colors and finishes, including matte, satin, and gloss.
  2. Enamel & Lacquer Model Paint: Enamel and lacquer model paints are solvent-based paints known for their durability and smooth finishes. Enamel paints dry to a hard, glossy finish and are often used for hand painting small details and fine lines. Lacquer paints dry quickly and provide excellent coverage and adhesion, making them ideal for airbrushing and large-scale projects. Both types of paints require proper ventilation and solvent-based thinners for cleanup.
  3. Airbrushing: Airbrushing is a painting technique that uses compressed air to spray a fine mist of paint onto a surface. It offers precise control over paint application, allowing for smooth gradients, fades, and intricate details. Airbrushes are versatile tools used for basecoating, shading, highlighting, and weathering models. They require practice to master but can achieve professional-quality results with the right techniques.
  4. Painting Accessories: Painting accessories include various tools and supplies used to enhance the painting process and achieve desired effects. They may include brushes of different sizes and shapes for different applications, palette knives for mixing and applying paint, paint trays and mixing palettes for blending colors, masking tape and liquid masks for creating sharp edges and patterns, and cleaning supplies for maintaining brushes and airbrush equipment.
  5. Spray Paint For Models: Spray paint for models is specially formulated for use on plastic, metal, and other modeling materials. It provides even coverage and smooth finishes with minimal brush marks. Spray paints come in aerosol cans for easy application and are available in a wide range of colors and finishes, including primer, basecoat, and clear coat. They are ideal for quickly covering large areas and achieving consistent results.
  6. Model Weathering Accessories: Model weathering accessories include products and techniques used to simulate realistic weathering effects on models, such as rust, dirt, grime, and wear and tear. They may include weathering powders, washes, pigments, and specialized paints for creating rust streaks, oil stains, chipping, and fading. Weathering accessories add depth, texture, and realism to models, bringing them to life and telling stories of their use and history.