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Where to buy individual Lifecolor Paints
cabasner
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Posted: Friday, April 06, 2018 - 03:37 AM UTC
Hi all,

Does anyone know where to buy individual Lifecolor paints on line? There seem to be lots of places where you can get various Lifecolor SETS of paints, usually sets of 6 related colors, like rust or German tanks or US aircraft, etc., but I'm interested in buying individual Lifecolor paint jars of their many different colors. I can't seem to find ANYWHERE to buy their paint jars individually. Can anyone help?
Tank1812
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Posted: Friday, April 06, 2018 - 03:42 AM UTC
https://www.scalehobbyist.com/manufacturers/LifeColor/Paints/browse.php?s=3&t=1&man=LFC

I haven't used Life Color but I have spent some good amount of coin at this shop.

HTH
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Posted: Friday, April 06, 2018 - 03:42 AM UTC
Sprue Brothers should have them around $5.00 a bottle


http://store.spruebrothers.com/category_s/1981.htm

Heck that is a good price, better then mine.

As Frank from I love Raymond would say , holy crap, those prices are great, been awhile since I bought stuff from them,won't be long now.
Thanks for posting that place , as I forgot about them.
Pretty fast shipping also if I remember.
Vicious
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Posted: Friday, April 06, 2018 - 04:07 AM UTC
Or directly from them...

http://www.astromodelstore.com/brand/lifecolor

where you often find the colors of the sets even individually

Or here...

https://www.bnamodelworld.com/hobby-model-paints-thinners-paints-lifecolor-acrylic

after Mission Model paints LifeColors are my 2° best acrilics paint
Tank1812
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Posted: Friday, April 06, 2018 - 04:32 AM UTC

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Sprue Brothers should have them around $5.00 a bottle


http://store.spruebrothers.com/category_s/1981.htm

Heck that is a good price, better then mine.

As Frank from I love Raymond would say , holy crap, those prices are great, been awhile since I bought stuff from them,won't be long now.
Thanks for posting that place , as I forgot about them.
Pretty fast shipping also if I remember.


A little slower then Sprue Brothers to the shipping dock but usually faster then most
others, YMMV. For me saving $ is better then sitting on my shelf faster, to each their own. Spending/spent plenty at both.
cabasner
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Posted: Friday, April 06, 2018 - 05:11 AM UTC
Wow, thanks, guys! This was perfect! I don't know why I didn't think of some of these stores before, because I've purchased stuff from all of them. Probably the best, in terms of selection across the board, in my experience, has been Scalehobbyist. I found all the colors I was looking for there. Thanks again, a million times, guys!
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Posted: Friday, April 06, 2018 - 05:22 AM UTC
I don't know if this matters.....
I wait until Spring has really sprung. I'm paranoid about paint freezing during shipping. I don't know either way if acrylic paint freezes and then thaws has it's properties been affected. Anybody have any insights on this?
Vicious
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Posted: Friday, April 06, 2018 - 05:33 AM UTC

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I don't know if this matters.....
I wait until Spring has really sprung. I'm paranoid about paint freezing during shipping. I don't know either way if acrylic paint freezes and then thaws has it's properties been affected. Anybody have any insights on this?


I know that the water based Polyurethane reacts badly to freezing ,told me the owner of Mission Model but this concerns its Polyurethan additive mix, it becomes foamy and unusable, I do not know for the paints that already have it in the mix,but I guess its not so good
Tank1812
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Posted: Friday, April 06, 2018 - 04:58 PM UTC

Quoted Text

I don't know if this matters.....
I wait until Spring has really sprung. I'm paranoid about paint freezing during shipping. I don't know either way if acrylic paint freezes and then thaws has it's properties been affected. Anybody have any insights on this?


I have heard that also but to me it's all a gamble. Some places are funny about shipping paint by air, others are not. Outside of that one doesn't know how paint got to the place you are buying from. More then likely it's coming from another source or two before and no one knows that shipping schedule or method. For the most part I haven't seen any issues. Almost all my paint is bought online as we don't really have any hobby shops near by. I am sure the store or manufacture might be willing to help if you truly do have any issues afterwards but no guarantees.
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