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I am working on a kit for one of the campaigns. I finished priming with Tamiya's fine primer. I used Life Color's olive green to paint the roadwheels and lower hull and their Dunklegeld to paint the turret and upper hull. I then drew and colored the camo pattern on paper. I plan to draw the pattern on with a pencil and brush a hard edge then spray in the field color. I might paint the small dots and make it an ambush pattern.

Here is where I need your opinion. I fought the Life color paint all day. I used new unopened bottles of paint. It was really thin and did not cover well. It spidered so I reduced the pressure. It spattered because of extra paint on the tip. The airbrush stopped painting on multiple occasions. I completely stripped the airbrush twice and windexed the airbrush, lacquer thinned the airbrush and ultrasonic the airbrush. I have lost faith that I can finish the camo without screwing up the job. I have never had these problems with Tamiya. I really do like the Life Colors color choices but I'm not liking the paint at this point.

What paint should I finish with? The only paint I have available locally is Model Master enamels and acrylics at Hobby Lobby. I will probably order some paint online. From your experience, I need a paint that will be able to brush the hard line edge without brush marks and be able to nicely spray the field color.

What thinner are you using? Have you tried using a retarder for your acrylic paints?

I used Life Color thinner and two drops of retarder.

Lifecolour is great, but you need to know how to treat it. Short answer-too much thinner, i would guess 1 to 1 rather than 1 to 4 which works better. Lifecolour is already quite thin and flows well, adding too much thinner kills coverage, plus the paint pools and spiders. So try 20 to 25% thinner, or less for dunkelgelb, and enjoy.