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News of a special Easter offer from our chums at True-Earth: Plenty of color in your Easter Eggs, from True Earth. The exclusive Scraping Paints + Rust Primer in a great offer ! Pack content : TEPR03 RustBrown Primer And the Scraping Paints TECP01 Red Oxide primer - minimum TECP02 Whitewash TECP03 Dunkelgelb ral 7028 TECP04 Verde 4BO russian tanks TECP05 Panzer grey ral 7021 TECP06 Gelbbraun AfrikaKorps Take advantage, this offer, which expires Monday 28th March 2016 at midnight ! SEE OFFER !

SDW Shading Colours True-Earth I've seldom seen a paint that's made me raise my eyebrows before, but these sets from True-Earth of Italy are such a paint. In fact, they describe the liquid in the bottles as water-based resins, and they have an incredibly fine pigment grind that lends itself to easy spraying with little chance of blockages. They can be used out of the bottle with airbrush or brush, or you can dilute them with water to use them as filters. Airbrush Use They can be sprayed without thinning, and as already mentioned can be diluted for a translucent effect, or mixed together to achieve new colours or effects. You can also add a gloss medium to the paint for… well, a glossy finish, would you believe? I've now had a chance to use them through the airbrush extensively, and have been very impressed. I've sprayed them through my 0.2mm H&S Infinity CRPlus at around 15psi, and they spray reliably, with no blockages. You need to be gentle with the application however, because of how easily it sprays which can soon end up with too heavy an application if you are a bit heavy on the the trigger. For my test model I sprayed up a 1:35 Nebelwerfer 42 rocket launcher in a fairly standard green/brown splotches over a dark yellow base. Again, I had a few over-applications of the spots due to my lack of experience with the paint, but as it stays wet longer than your average acrylic paint, clean up of spiders is easy to do. Brush Painting Because of the finely ground pigment and the slightly longer drying time compared to standard acrylics, the paint should dry without brush-marks, and like all acrylics the layer will shrink back and thin out during the drying process. The paints also blend incredibly well, lending themselves to figure painting, which is where I first used them, adding weathering to a Star Wars Sand Trooper that I was building a while back. The paints come in 19ml dropper bottles, and have a child-resistant cap to stop your toddler guzzling your precious paints! A number of sets are available now, but we had the German AFV camo set in for review, although it came in the wrong box! Inside the correct box (as pictured at the top) you will find the following paints: TESC20 Dark Yellow RAL 7028-1 TESC21 Dull Yellow RAL 7028-2 TESC22 Grey RAL 7028-3 TESC23 Red Brown TESC24 Olive Green It's worthwhile also picking up a white, black and maybe a few greys while you're shopping, as they'll be useful if you plan on doing and fading or tonal modulation with your airbrush. They are incredibly fluid and as mentioned, they have a longer drying time that gives you more time to blend and adjust. Once dry they are quite tenacious in gripping a matt/satin surface, but can be removed with IPA if you make a mistake or change your mind about a colour. I have a JagdPanzer IV stalled in my build queue at the moment, and will report back on the painting, as I plan on using these paints so that I can complete review after more experience using them. Conclusion A useful new paint range that could be of interest to airbrush modellers and brush-painters alike. True-Earth are also very forward in explaining how to use their products, and have a free downloadable e-book here that explains their whole weathering and painting ethos, plus online quick guides like the one for the Shading Colours, which you can find here. No books to buy before you can use them! Having now had some experience with the paints through an airbrush, I will definitely be using them again. Very highly recommended. See all the sets available plus individual colours here Review sample courtesy of

News from Beppe at True-Earth about a new type of paint... sounds very interesting SDW Shading Colors Did you ever dream of a paint you can use both like an acrylic or like an oil paint ? We finally get it ! SDW Shading Colors are the newest concept in waterbased resins. They are similar to acrylic paints, but with an amazing shading and blending ability. By BRUSH they avail a perfectly smooth, even and well covered surface, also on large areas. By AIRBRUSH just put the paint into the cup and start painting. By BRUSH you can shade and blend them together like you would do with an oil color. Or you can work them with an acrylic method, with progressive layering of slightly thinned down paints. TWO STATES of use. Just out of the bottle they are fluid and flowy, availing free hand complex jobs, or drawing very long lines with a single token of color. But some drops of paint into an open jar will get progressively denser within some hours, to the consistence an oli paint, and used similarly. DRYING TIMES are user-friendly, since they vary at our advantage upon the method used and the amount spread. NO SOLVENTS, NO SMELL For deeper info and tutorials, download our free e-book COMPENDIUM A first batch of colors is now available on our web-shop www.true-earth.com More colors will follow soon. SDW Shading Colors are... Everything you can do with an acrylic paint + everything you can do with an oil paint, but much better...

STEEL PLATE SDW New Formula This filter / color benefits now of the new SDW - Slow Drying Waterbased - formulation. It can be used as a filter, as a wash, as a paint. Due to a bit longer drying time, a soft shading, similar to oil colour methods, is carried out with a brush. It can also be airbrushed or brushed to achieve a deeper or a worn colour tone for metal parts, compared to a classic metallic colour, due to it's progressive covering ability, which interacts with the base colour-primer initially painted. Looks rather interesting, and I quite fancy giving it a try next time I'm actually able to build something! Available now

Jet Set True-Earth A selection of five waterbased Transparent Filters, to achieve a wide range of effects going from a subtle shape enhance to a heavier wear. For any type of modern aircraft in camouflaged dressing. The entire method is explained into an exhaustive PDF Tutorial. This tutorial shows all steps, ranging from WATERFILLER PUTTY application to decals and finish with True Earth products. Described methods are good for all modern aircraft, not just F 104 shown. The pdf tutorial comes free with Jet Set, or can be purchased separately. All products available at www.true-earth.com online shop.

WaterFiller Putty True-Earth Waterfiller Putty is a new formula of water-based resin from True-Earth, to fill those gaps we find building our plastic models. It’s a white colored dense fluid, with some properties that turns the annoying putty-and-sanding into a fast and straightforward job. At first of you must know that in most situations you need no sanding at all. And second, from now onwards you will need no more to re-carve all the little details you always lose in other-brands-putty session. Thinning is done with water. Removal with alcohol or Isopropanol (IPA). PRODUCT AVAILABLE HERE at True Earth webshop FREE TUTORIAL for all newsletter subscribers.

The BASIC BOOK Filters, paints, diorama products Fresh from a company that's new to us, and uses a modeller (and environment) friendly water-based approach. Basic instructions about product use are available on the website www.true-earth.com The purpose of the new "The BASIC BOOK" is the completeness and the maximum density of topics. All aspects of weathering and shape enhancement are shown by complete step by step tutorials and explanations. From filters and washes, to the exclusive True Earth THREE STEPS METHOD, the way to easily do highlights, shadows and filters all in one, able to let you save time and products. You will have it explained and demonstrated on tank, aircraft, ship, mecha, railway car and earthmover, with complete tutorials. Brush and airbrush methods are extensively shown and explained. Easy methods for complex rust effects, the various methods and results possible for paint scratching with Run Off / Crystal Lock, and wood veins effects . Also included are diorama house building, terrain and concrete aircraft-strip tutorials too. Both beginners and more skillful modellers will be introduced into True Earth approach, to quickly and easily achieve pleasing models of new or worn machines. 100 pages of tutorials ! Plenty of explanations ! Printed in paperback Semi-rigid cover A4 size Bilingual text ENG / ita