flying tiger

Try to prime with silver paint and paint the white over it. It makes a world of difference.

Buy some lighting alcohol (95 degrees). It has a blue color and can be found in supermarkets dirt cheap. Soak a large bush with it and start layng it on the model. You will need 30 minutes tops for the model to reach bare plastic. Just wet the surface and after a minute start rubbing with the brush. It eats through acrylic paint and decals like butter but wont affect putty.

I advise you to go with H&S evolution if you can spare the money or with the Iwata eclipse hp-cs for something cheaper (but not inferior). Both are excellent, versatile, both are easy to clean and when you get them on your hand you have this feeling that they will last forever.

AB-183 Professional Precision Double Action Airbrush Kit Ref: AB-183-K. I got the same from a different supplier (and a different brand logo but it is made in Taiwan by the same manufacturer) it has a teardrop self centering nozzle and it lasted me 4 years without problems. Since then i got other a/b's but i still use it for general painting and preshading as well for metallics and varnishes. You cant go wrong with that one. As for your badger... Lets just say that my badger found himself in a very dark place when i bought it.

I have seen that they come in 20ml bottles, since they are thick and seeing some of the colors are different by the corresponding vallejo's, by being lighter, i would say that they, likely, are made by lifecolor(since lifecolor is a Italian company) edit 05/March http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/paint/it...t_italeri.shtml they are not lifecolor after all.

I think that the revell email colors are synthetic lacquers and not enamels. Try colormix and ,if you can find it, Mr. color thinner. I tried the latter with success.

And a very good thing is to heat them with a lighter until they just turn yellow from the heat and then let them cool naturally.

The same thing happened to me. I have used from IPA to windex and from tamiya thinners to model air thinners with them and never had a problem. When i saw that revell made a specific thinner the aqua color i bought two of the bottles. The first turned out OK(terrible smell though), but the second turned the paint to jelly. So it must be a bad patch. To tell you the truth, you can thin better and spray better with household products. Try tamiya or mr. hobby aqueous color thinner with them, they thin and work with everything.