PaulDM

I am not performing a "legacy paint" so tinlets of Enamel are irrelevant to this topic as I am talking about manufacturer being lack lustre about paint recommendation for 21st century builds. Look at it this way. I select a model from the website... I select the recomended paints and add them to my cart... I present the gift of the model plus paints to my child... They open the build instructions and ON THE FIRST PAGE it lists a paint which is not supplied as AIRFIX did not list it.

I am not performing a "legacy paint" so tinlets of Enamel are irrelevant to this topic as I am talking about manufacturer being lack lustre about paint recommendation for 21st century builds.

Thank you for your advise. but it is off topic and irrelevant.

1 - why would I do that ? Im using Humbrol 2 - Sorry I thought that since you Moderate the Airfix Forum on the Airfix Website that you work for Airfix. I will take my complaint to their customer service.

Nope. look at the pictures of the FW Website says completely different list to paint the "plane only" than the box. Specifically 56/106 vs 246/247

I find your answer slightly offensive as I did do my research I assumed as the manufacturer of the product I could rely on accurate information for the construction of one of your models. . So, what I understand from the Airfix response here is the excuse for inaccurate information on their own website is to advise “you are not researching enough, go look elsewhere as our information is unreliable and in some cases completely wrong after all we really don’t want to sell you our paints as that would be a paint by numbers exercise” effectively you are saying don’t trust our website as a source for research.

VERY DISAPPOINTED. For my Birthday I chose a couple of models from the website and included the. paints that were detailed there for the Scheme. In reality, when the models arrived not only were there different colours detailed (not listed), None of the pilot colours were there. Now for this. model I need to buy 3 extra colours. A01020A Focke Wulf Fw190-A8 And For this one I need 4 extra colours A05010A Dornier D017z Mods Please advise your web team to actually be accurate in the colours shown in schemes on the website.

Can you give me the Humbrol number of the “spirit or lacquer based” ACRLIC and I will adjust my thinning techniques.

Sorry. No. chemical definition of Acrylic. 41% water, 32% polymer binder, and 6.5% pigments plus additives so soluble in water. the “plastic component” which “sets” the paint compared to “watercolour” accounts for the 32% polymer. if the paint goes beyond that composition it’s not “Acrylic”

Acrylic every time. Just apply different techniques for painting. It is a different paint, so adapt your application....

Enamel is old school now. (I too painted in this back in the day) Especially the 'old" Humbrol paints which were withdrawn due to a chemical content becoming banned by the EU. Thank of it this way. No more cleaning of the brushes in white spirit and finding them hard and useless... so off to the model shop next day to buy a new brush... Today with Acrylic - just clean with water. Admittedly the paint is not as "strong" as enamel, but that is also true of car paint these days which has moved from a solvent based to water based paint. Just apply more coats and seal with Varnish...

Thank you for the quality advice.

I would thoroughly recommend. A large (1") Flat brush Some Extreme Detail Brushes A "4 way" Nail Buffer A Jewellery Eye Gasses Magnifier

Thank you Ratch. Is the model plastic set enough so the oven cleaner will not melt it?

Does anyone have a technique to remove Acrylic paint from a model? The first one I painted for years ( a Red Arrows gnat starter kit ) I made some noob mistakes and the paint job should just be described as "bad" lol, so I want to strip the model back to the base plastic.