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Title: Humbrol painting - any good?
Post by: jchaos79 on November 18, 2014, 05:52:18 AM

Hi,

Do you have experience with Humbrol paints? is it good?

I used enamel back in the 80, but were my first steps in painting so I could not compare properly with acrylics. I regular use Vallejo, GW and Rackham.

Do you use Humbrol acrylic? adhesion? color tone? pastel  tones?, covering of the paint? thin or thick? any experience?

Title: Re: Humbrol painting - any good?
Post by: Bethany on December 10, 2014, 04:50:18 AM

I know that Humbrol enamel paint is solvent-based and dries to a pretty hard finish. I have used the Humbrol acrylic paint myself - it dries very fast and contains pigment in acrylic polymer emulsion. It needs to be diluted with water but becomes water-resistant once it dries up.

Title: Re: Humbrol painting - any good?
Post by: jchaos79 on December 11, 2014, 09:56:00 AM

Welcome Bethany,

thanks for your comment, do you have any pictures of figures painted with umbrol acrylics to see the finish tone of that paint?

that will be great for me (if it is not too much work to post them)

Title: Re: Humbrol painting - any good?
Post by: Gorrin on July 26, 2015, 02:06:48 PM

I know I'm late to the party here but I use humbrol acrylics almost exclusively. They are quite thick but thin up nicely with tamiya acrylic thinners. Their advantage over virtually every manufacturer is that they dry matt. Although you can also use tamiya flat base to make citadel paint dry flat.

My thunderers in the catalogue were painted in humbrol as we're the attached WIP dwarfs...EXTREME CLOSE UP WARNING!!!

Title: Re: Humbrol painting - any good?
Post by: jchaos79 on July 26, 2015, 03:56:26 PM

Thanks for your answer, and for the picture.

Finally I bought a green Tamiya color (X-28 green grass) and prooved it by myself.