Paint help

[Ralpd]

Best place to buy paint online or in store...

[bobss396]

I buy only cans of touch-up paints online. But just about anything is available on places like eBay and good online hobby shops. eBay you may find free shipping here and there.

I have 2 hobby shops close by, they have Tamiya paints, some Model Master and acrylics. But have zero in aftermarket parts. The next 2 shops are 25 miles each way, they too have no aftermarket parts or very little. 

Some guys like hardware store paints and get god results with them. I hit up auto parts stores for VHT and Duplicolor paints. 

[stitchdup]

i like to buy paints in person. the colours online never match what they show due to so many different screens being used while instore you can actually look at it and see the colour properly. its not so important with primers and clears but its very rare i'll get paint online unless its house of kolor or similar

[StevenGuthmiller]

Depends on the paint, but I virtually never buy anything from a hardware or home improvement store.

Most of them are enamels, and I've had pretty much nothing but trouble with most of the big box store brands.

 

If I'm buying anything from a brick and mortar store, it's almost always lacquer based automotive paints such as Duplicolor from an auto parts store, and that's generally primers and clear coats.

As far as body colors goes, I don't use anything anymore except premixed, ready to spray, air brush lacquers from one of the many hobby designated paint providers, such as MCW or Scale Finishes.

The paint itself is WAY better than any of the excrement, (sorry, that's just my view) that you find in most spray cans, and the color pallet is endless.

I like being able to choose any color that I desire without having to rifle through 15 different brands of rattle cans and still not be able to find the color that I want.

Plus I know that the paint that I receive will not be some unusable garbage.

 

 

 

Steve