The SteelNavy.Com Message Board: Re: These paint posts always bring me an inward smile.

I have to disagree with you my friend, loosing model master was a huge loss in my book and also many others agree that love enamels and a good selection of colors..I am unfortunately having to use acrylics mostly now and my feeling is that they SUCK!!! they dont adhere well at all, you have to pre prime everything and then immediately clear coat after painting or risk it scratching off VERY easily.. None of these factors were an issue with the enamels..I still have some and use them sparingly as they are GOLD! have a wonderful day..

P.S, Tamiya Acrylic is the best I have used so far, durable, goes on bare plastic and sticks well ( I still prime anyway) and it holds well, BUT, not a good color selection AND they have NO FS colors OR WWII Naval colors to speak of>

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When Model Master killed off Polly Scale I posted Polly Scale Railroad Colors Anyone? Laughed at then as being extreme. Then Model Master killed off the naval pigments in both acrylic and enamel and finally Testors/MM paints bit the dust. No loss.

I am follower of S&S research and their chip cards.

In my free fall through the hobby paint world I learned that not all enamels play well with 3D prints even after cleaning and priming. Nearly all paints that came after Testors were made for the airbrush and the truth was stretched about being dual use for the brush. I noticed everybody including Testors differed from the S&S paint chips for what was 5N today was not 5N tomorrow or was never 5N to begin with.

I learned that USN pigments were not all that unique to just ships.

I have to thank everyone who thought I was extreme about the Polly Scale acrylic RR paint. Spurred me on to find exact PS acrylic matches to modern and WW2 USN colors that always apply well to 3D print, mold injected, resin and white metal.

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Good afternoon, I am wondering where I can buy colourcoats paints direct? also, where could I check out a color sheet with the colors that they offer? they are enamel correct? hope so.. who owns them now? thanks guys for any info..