while painting yesterday i found that using revell paints on polystyrene makes a great ruined effect to it. It eats some of it up and works great, its hard to explain but try it, it is great for ruins!!

Is is corrosive? How come it eats the thing up?

Is this the polystyrene foam trays used for packing meat etc. in ? The problem is that it burns the inside of it more than the outsides. I learned this when I built my second dio. I had lots of scribed brick work and the enamel paint ran into the scribed area and burnt the ¤#% out of it. I didnt feel then like it was a great effect. All enamels will corrode the foam. To avoid this, use acrylics. If a good layer of acrylics is used first, the enamels for washes and dry brushed will not harm it. I suppose when controlled properly it could be taken advantage of, but I would rather rely on scribing as it is so easy to scribe in the first place! The picture below shows some of the damage it did to the dio. On the wall section to the right, it had 2 layers of polystyrene foam trays, and it burned the middle parts out. Sooooooo annoying.
But on the other hand polystyrene is a great medium to use for buildings. The bridge and house were made with it. Check my MSN pages for more pictures

hi

to be honest from my starting point of modelling at age 11 till now , i've always used Revell paint and somethimes Humbroll and tamiya. even my airbrush is revell

i wonderd why no one talks about the quality of Revell paint ? every toy store in belgium sells Revell so it's easy to find over here

bye bye

dmd

Stef

I have painted with revell paint in my early days and I have to say that my experiences were quite bad.. Bad colors, bad cover, streaks etc. maybe it was my lack of experience in those days but it was enough for me to step over to Humbrol and Tamyia acrylics.

Steffen,

I have to second the opinion of Robert. I feel Humbrol os so much better over Revell colours... Sorry.

About brushes etc...... Revell is excellent. Those blue triangular brusher are the best....and afforable too.

i have painted with revell and humbrol paints for a long time but i've switched to tamiya and i preffer tamiya. The colours are really much better.

Hmmm.... nice trick. I should try that out sometime.

hi

strange actually, i use humbrol flesh coulor and tamiya matt flesh , mixed them and i always have a nice result.

for my airbrush i always use Revell with 50 % thinner and actually can't complain....

but i don't have much experience with other brands so it could be me

greetzz

steffen

About 15 years ago it was hard to find any good paints in Poland. The paint I used were horrible, so when i bought my first Humbrol paint I was shocked. I tried humbrol , testors revell, and in my opinion revell is the worst.