Steve, thanks for your reply. I envy you American modelers for your choice of paints. Switzerland and the EU are very restrictive about solvents and everything seems to be acrylic or enamel. You have to have a tradesman's licence to get restricted paints - at least that's how it was when I had professional access through my job in the grafics industry. Since then I use Zero from the UK and am currently trying out Gravity from Spain - I believe both paints are acrylic lacquers, whatever that means.