Your welcome.
I am familiar with this habit. I often take these book with me into the bed. For some funny reason, my wife does not evaluate this habit as an 'old school', rather 'possessed'
Few tips on acrylics /which I did not find in the books/
- Always put an agitator ball into the jar /stainless steel/, it will make the shaking, blending the paint easier. Acrylics are very sensitive to be consistently mixed.
- Acrylic primers work completely different way than lacquer primers. Vallejo primer is polyurethane, AK/AMMO is polymer. They are less aggressive an do not bite plastic, like lacquer ones do.
Vallejo is behaving as a kind of latex, tricky to sand. AK/AMMO is more forgiving primers, can be sanded. All of them work better if you let them cure properly, for 48 hours.
- I like Vallejo paints for hand-painting. But they don't work for me on a bare plastic, some primer is needed.
- The difference between Turpentine and White spirit /for oil rendering/ is the smell and the drying time. White spirit smells less and dries faster.
- Pigments are also an excellent products /Mike Rinaldi using them in TankArt as well/. You can actually paint with them, adding some thinner. The best is MIG Production, fine and rich in pigments. AK/AMMO pigments not bad either, but next to a MIG Production pigment you feel the difference.
Choosing the right brand/type of a product for your taste, saves a lot of time.
ps
I recommend reading TankArt 1, Panther winter wash chapter. Real art what Mike Rinaldi does there.
