Has anyone used the Floquil Polly Scale brand of paints? I’m used to brushing enamels, but I just pciked up an airbrush and wanted to try some new things.
Plus they seem to have all the colors I need for my WWII German birds…
These are very high quality paints. They were the basis for the Aeromaster line, and in ease of use they are comparable to Testors Acryl. The color range is good, but not totally exhaustive, and I have heard complaints from a few nitpickers about the precise shades. Of course, all that is quite subjective.
i have used the floquil model railroad colors, and they are great, so i would say that they would be very good
I’ve used them for a number of years without complaint. They coat well, go on smoothly and dry quickly.
ok, ill be the oddball lol. i would choose model master. more selection and you can choose between acrylic and enamel[B)][;)]
Reading the bottle tells me that Testors and Floquil/Polly Scale are both owned by RPM, but the variety of product available from Polly Scale seems to me to be greater than Acryl, though Acryl is easier to find. I think the formulas are a bit different, and Polly Scale seems to hand-brush better than Acryl, though they both airbrush very well indeed.
I’ve had excellent results with both, and frankly use both. I did have a LITTLE trouble the first time I used Polly Scale but I attribute that to just not being used to thinning and using that brand of paint - it took a while to find the “just right” proportions. But once I did, it went on smoothly and looked great. I use MM Acryl a little more often because my closest hobby shop stocks them, but when I’m on the road or ordering on line I’ll grab either one.
Coverage DOES seem in my experience to be a little better with Polly Scale, and I’m thinking I’m going to try and start using their flat white for ordnance, landing gear struts and wells, etc because it usually takes a few coats of MM Acryl to get the coverage I need.
My only complaint is, yes, with the shade of ONE color I used - Polly Scale’s “USSR Underside Blue” doesn’t look like the very pale blue-gray I see in most pictures of Soviet planes. Next time, I’ll either mix it to the right shade or buy another color! [:o)]
What do you guys use to thin and/or clean for airbrushing with Floquil Polly Scale Acrylics?
I normally use alcohol with Tamiya acryls, but I need more colors.
I have used Polly Scale and the former Polly S paints for decades. I think they are great. I use their brand of airbrush thinner with them too, which contains ethanol and “propylene glycol methyl ether” (that should be monomethyl or dimethyl ether, if properly named). I have tried using just a plain ethanol / water mix, but I didn’t like the results. It seems to cause the pigments to separate, which is probably why they put in the glycol ether. They can be thinned with water, but I think their thinner works better, especially when airbrushing. The entire family of gycol ethers are not exactly great chemicals to be huffing, so use of a respirator and proper ventilation should be SOP.
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According to Erik Pilawskii in his recently published “Soviet Air Force Fighter Colours 1941-1945” that Polly Scale “USSR Underside Blue” is dead on accurate for AII Blue. It’s the prints that are not accurate, although weathered, that blue won’t look like a flourescent light blue.
I use Polly Scale’s military and model railroad colors and they work
great for me. I thin and clean them up with distilled sodium free water ( it’s cheap and works great ) or 70% rubbing alcohol.
My only complaint is, yes, with the shade of ONE color I used - Polly Scale’s “USSR Underside Blue” doesn’t look like the very pale blue-gray I see in most pictures of Soviet planes. Next time, I’ll either mix it to the right shade or buy another color! [:o)]
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I was painting a model and the reference book had the same photograph twice. The colors were different in both! After wondering which was right my
father who worked in printing all his life explained about color separation . If the
printer doesn’t get the color separation exact every time it will not match the original. This goes for photo’s in books and photograph prints from a local lab
too. He said use the colors called for . Because, if it looks good why worry ?
Thanks Dad!