The Ship Model Forum

Weeelll...don't know if this will help, but my 2 cents...

First, acrylics thin best with alcohol/methylated spirits...water tends to be BAAAAD-Bad (at least in my experience and 2 friends). It just splatter and doesn't thin well.

I used to be a brush man, but am an AIRbrush man now. There's just no way a brush can ever give the beautiful scale-thin detail of air, no matter wishful-thinking and fantasies. You can get big compressors cheap now, and even a single-action airbrush will work wonders.

I have used WEM paints in tests, but never extensively in actual painting, tho I have heard brushing they can get thick and gluggy. The WEM I've used has all been enamel/thinner based.

Good luck!

Model Master Acrylic paint is the best paint for the brush. I thin mine with distilled water, depending on the pigment in the paint...I thin about 35 to 60 percent.

For those that have used both, which of these is easier to brush paint over a primed undercoat? Does either one look better/worse than the other.

Thanks,
Erik