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new tamiya paints?
spitfire303
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Posted: Friday, December 02, 2011 - 03:32 AM UTC
Hi,

anyone tried the new (I guess) Tamiya paints:

XF-86 flat
XF - 84 dark iron
XF-85 Rubber Black

I'm especially interested in the flat lacquer. Form what I know before they had some kind of a flat agent to mix with their gloss lacquer....

Any feedback appreciated
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viper29_ca
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Posted: Friday, December 02, 2011 - 04:33 AM UTC
With that number on the bottle, it wouldn't be a lacquer, but an acrylic. And since most Tamiya paint is still unavailable in the US.....likely not many have tried it. Some has started to trickle back in, but a majority of the colors still remain sold out at many suppliers.
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Posted: Friday, December 02, 2011 - 04:53 AM UTC
Scott

Any idea when we might see them in Canada?

Kevin
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Posted: Thursday, May 02, 2013 - 01:19 PM UTC
I have the XF-85 Rubber Black and the XF-84 Dark Iron. Tried out the XF-85...I LOVE IT!!! And, it's enamel, not acrylic...come in a bottle similar in size to Testors. Awesome paint! Smoooooooth as sin....

Mike

Edit: LMAO! Just saw the date of original post! Did a search for it because there's a current topic on this. Whoops!!!
retiredyank
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Posted: Thursday, May 02, 2013 - 02:09 PM UTC
The new paints haven't made it to my lhs, yet.
salazareric
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Posted: Saturday, May 04, 2013 - 01:08 PM UTC
XF-85 is indeed acrylic. This is the acrylic flat line of tamiya.

edit: their enamel line has the same designation. Talk about confusion, hayyyy.
GALILEO1
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Posted: Thursday, May 09, 2013 - 11:02 AM UTC
I have at least three jars of the XF-86 clear flat and it's pretty good. The ones I have are acrylics. Of course, Tamiya seems to use the same numbering system for the enamel range (those little bottles that look like the Testors' one).

Rob
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