Ammo Modern Ammunition & Weapons Colours Acrylic Paint Sets

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Modern Ammunition & Weapons Colours Paint Sets
AMMO of Mig Jimenez

The releases of new paint sets from the new company harnessing Mig Jimenez's prodigious talents just goes on from strength to strength. Today we see two sets with a tenuous link, both of which arrive in the by now familiar card box, inside which is a clear plastic tray containing six 17ml bottles of acrylic paint with dropper-style screw-off caps.

Modern Ammunition (A.MIG7129)

This set contains little ball-bearings to aid mixing of the paint, which is handy because it's important for metallic. The ammunition in question is the larger types, shells of various types from the new Discarding Sabot types through shaped charges and standard shrapnel producing shells. The box contains the following colours:

A.MIG194 Aluminium
A.MIG196 Warhead Metallic Blue
A.MIG197 Brass
A.MIG032 Satin Black
A.MIG081 FS24087 US Olive Drab
A.MIG212 FS26373 Silver Grey

As always with metallics, you need to shake them vigorously to get full particulate suspension, and you should decant it immediately to reduce settling. The colours are nicely done, with a very fine flake size, which will help with realism. The metallic blue is a particularly pleasant colour to look at, so it's worth buying the set just for that mesmerising blueness! Brass and Aluminium are used in shell casings as well as expansion bands, and the Black, Olive Drab and Grey are often used as colours for warheads. Check your references to make sure you paint, as usual. The box is covered in some useful reference pictures, with more on the rear to assist you in this vein.

Did I mention the blue?

Weapons Colours (A.MIG7123)

The set is without balls, as they seem to be a more recent introduction, but there's nothing to stop you adding your own. The colours are for traditional hand-held weapons such as pistols, assault rifles, rifles and any metal weapon with wooden furniture such as an RPG or bayonet. Inside the box are the following colours:

A.MIG192 Polished Metal
A.MIG045 Gun Metal
A.MIG032 Satin Black
A.MIG912 Red Brown Shadow
A.MIG913 Red Brown Base
A.MIG923 Red Brown Shine

Again, there are example weapons printed all over both the front and back of the box, with some suggested uses and mixtures of colours. The three Red Brown shades can be used to weather and texture wood furniture, while the satin black and two shades of metallic can be used to paint the metal parts, adding various shades for wear-marks and so forth.

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