Tag: cheap paint

• When All Else Fails, Cheap Out.

  

  We all cruise the aisle of the hobby shop, hardware store, craft shop, or toy store looking for the Great Bargain. The Score. The Once-In-A-Lifetime chance to buy a $5000 model for 50¢. It never eventuates, of course, and we can become bitter and twisted. The thing we all need to do is realise that…

  Dick Stein

  July 14, 2018

  Acrylic, Enamel, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Scale Models, Secondhand, Uncategorized, Workshop

  cheap models, cheap paint, cheap paper, cheap wood, frugality

• The Great White West Is Not A Great White Waste

  

  What’s white and cream and arctic and matt and gloss and lives in an old Patak’s curry paste jar? My new model paint, that’s what. And I think the most expensive component was the empty jar. I was up to the paint stage with my Air World museum buildings and they were daunting structures –…

  Dick Stein

  July 4, 2018

  Acrylic, Colour Schemes, Dioramas, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling materials, Painting, Uncategorized

  cheap paint, cheap painter, leftover