Hi AltcarBoB
Trying to patronize a family owned local hobby shop, they had AKI Acrylic Thinner (lot of stuff in supply chain is out of stock) Will what I bought work okay with most Acrylics? I'm somewhat familiar with W&N art supplies as I painted acrylics on canvas back in the day...
I also grabbed the AKI WW2 IJN Real Colors paint set (on sale). My A6M2 is the 2007 Tamiya Boxing. I realize that the colour issue about Zero's is quite a brew up, so for now I will work to do an excellent job with the set colours. It's a training kit anyway. I don't expect to produce a keeper, but just learn from new materials and options that weren't available last time i built a model kit plane back in... the early 90's?! ....
And Michael
What's the difference between a retarder and a thinner? Way back I painted acrylic and employed washes (thinning with water) but suspect the retarder slows the paint setting?
Will look at Aviationofjapan site, though I have no plans to go deep into IJN, or IJA aircraft.
Once I get my skills up to snuff; i have the A6M2 (Tamiya) and an; F4F-4 (Tamiya), SBD-2 Midway (Academy), Mustang III (Tamiya) all 1/48th to "work up" on. At that point I'll look at Royal Canadian Navy aircraft to build. Have a few "Moth's" tucked away all in 1/72nd scale; Fox, Hornet, Tiger, but they are for later, when my skills get to the "keeper" phase...
Happily, I have lots of tools having been a Model railroader for several years, I imagine a lot will be transferable... hope some of the skills will be...
Cheers,
Jeff