Acrylics versus Enamels

[Graham Boak]

I don't recall them as being particularly fast drying.

[dromia]

At the time of issue they were decidedly quick drying alongside the enamels mainly gloss, in those days, again I suspect that 'twas their thinness that that helped. At least as quick drying as the Colourcoats paint, seem to remember certain colours drying more quickly than others but again that could have been the weather.

 

They were amazing paints, they went on thin but covered in one coat, self leveling with nary a brush mark and an amazing matt finish, you soon learned about the need for stirring as it went on blotchy if you didn't give them enough wrist time, I can still remember my dismay with the dark earth I had put on an Airfix Anson insufficiently stirred and the dark patches that ensued. Lesson learned and I have stirred the soul out of my paints ever since.

 

I still have stocks of the Authentic Colour and break a tin out now and then and they are just as good as I remember them, from my experience they were the best model paint ever made before or since.

[dnl42]

8 hours ago, ckw said:

I simply will not use a paint now without first giving it a good spin.

I fully agree! I too always stir paint, but I use these manually-powered stirring things.