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Started by Volzfan59, July 30, 2025, 07:15:33 PM

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Volzfan59

I need to purchase some new bottled paint. I'm a diehard Testors enamel guy, but I'm interested in the Revell line of enamel bottled (canned) paint. When I stopped building 30 years ago I don't believe Revell was in the paint business. Anyway, what's the general consensus on Revell enamel paint?

I spray paint, rattle can at this point, as much as I can but still do a fair bit of brush work.

Thank you for any advice
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racecar dave

I like it for small parts.

18degrees

I use Tamiya acrylics for jar paint these days.
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Speedracer

I've still got a good stash of Testors Model Master paints. Maybe Rustoleum will revive that selection sometime in the future
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Brian Conn

  ...Since the O.P is wanting a general consensus on Revell paint....
 
  I do know for a fact that Humbrol was producing the paint for Revell a few years ago.  The guys in the model club that I belong to that build military armor, some military aircraft, swear by Humbrol as it works quite well with brush painting.  I have seen some builds using Revell paints and the finish was of model show quality.
 
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Volzfan59

Thank you for all of the replies guys. I'm going to order a couple of containers and see how I like it. The closest true hobby shop to me is in Little Rock, about three hours away. If I'm remembering correctly they don't carry Revell paints,
"Many men fish all of their lives without knowing it is not the fish that they are after." Henry David Thoreau

"I am, Sir, a brother of the angle" from the book The Compleat Angler. Izaak Walton 1653