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Cheap craft acrylics vs WS earth pigments?

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Posted by Santa Fe all the way! on Thursday, September 10, 2015 12:36 AM
I just went by Walmart and picked up a dozen bottles of the Apple Barrel paint @ 50ยข each. Looking at the Woodland Scenics Cement color, I'm not sure Apple Barrel has an equivalent color? My try getting Lowes to mix me some.
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Posted by farrellaa on Tuesday, September 8, 2015 11:04 PM

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Depending on the size of the area, you also can purchase samples from HD or get large containers of paint that people don't want very cheaply.  I did that and used the wet paint as 'glue' to secure the ground foam before spraying it w/ 50/50 water and glue. 

 

I get the small sample jars at Lowes and use it for my ground color (English Tea I think?). Also, Home Depot will mix any color in the small sample jars for about $3.00.

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Posted by kasskaboose on Tuesday, September 8, 2015 2:48 PM

Depending on the size of the area, you also can purchase samples from HD or get large containers of paint that people don't want very cheaply.  I did that and used the wet paint as 'glue' to secure the ground foam before spraying it w/ 50/50 water and glue. 

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Posted by farrellaa on Saturday, September 5, 2015 9:52 PM

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There are cheap paints and their are better paints. Walmart has the cheaper variety, as you would well expect. They are good paints, LION use them all of the time, but there are better paints at Hobby Lobby, far greater color selections and different quality of paints perhaps with finer pigments in them. Hobby paints that many are used to have very fine pigments in them, others just toss in the whole hoof and call it a pig-ment. Finer is better, but discover for yourself what works best for you. Coarse pigments work fine for scenic elements, details require better, unless you can get away with cheaper.

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And even more important, you don't have to go into Walmart!

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Posted by rrebell on Saturday, September 5, 2015 9:26 AM

True about some paints, but Apple Barrel are almost as good a Liquatex for a fracton of the cost, pigment is not bad but deluted a bit more, thats fine by me as they don't tend to go bad. Now some other brands are not so great. You got to relize a lot of stuff is just relabeled from brand to brand with no diference. The CA that people spend a lot for, is sometimes the same as the $ store one (look for who makes it, not the brand). As a side note, dose anyone know who makes the paint for Woodland Scenics?

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Saturday, September 5, 2015 6:34 AM

There are cheap paints and their are better paints. Walmart has the cheaper variety, as you would well expect. They are good paints, LION use them all of the time, but there are better paints at Hobby Lobby, far greater color selections and different quality of paints perhaps with finer pigments in them. Hobby paints that many are used to have very fine pigments in them, others just toss in the whole hoof and call it a pig-ment. Finer is better, but discover for yourself what works best for you. Coarse pigments work fine for scenic elements, details require better, unless you can get away with cheaper.

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Posted by Santa Fe all the way! on Friday, September 4, 2015 11:11 PM
I was wondering if A. Craft paint works as good as the WS pigments and B. As the cheap Walmart craft paint does not use common paint names, like yellow ocher for example, does anyone know the equivalent colors?
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Posted by Santa Fe all the way! on Friday, September 4, 2015 11:07 PM
I was referring to the colors in their rock face making kit. They are, burnt umber, yellow ocher, raw umber, stone gray, concrete, and slate gray. There is also white and back, but I think I can deal with that, lol
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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, September 4, 2015 3:25 PM

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Walmart sells craft paints for 50cents a bottle for Applebarrel.

 

 

True... But Hobby Lobby has far more flavors to choose from.

 

Far More

 

 

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Posted by rrebell on Friday, September 4, 2015 3:11 PM

Walmart sells craft paints for 50cents a bottle for Applebarrel.

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Posted by modelmaker51 on Friday, September 4, 2015 2:50 PM

Since earth is not just one color, I just grab about a half dozen earth like colors and mix them up to suit what I'm painting.

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Posted by CGW121 on Friday, September 4, 2015 8:35 AM

I go to Hobby Lobby and they have a good assortment of paints. The brand is Liquitex. Burnt Umber, Raw Umber, Burnt Sennia and Black are the ones I use most. I found out the hard way different brands of the same name are different colors, I tried a different brand of Raw Umber and it was way to red for my taste. I also get grass stuff there as it is $4 a bag which is a lot cheaper than the LHS.

 

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, September 4, 2015 7:05 AM

LION only uses craft paints. Him has not a hobby shop to buy others, and him would not spend the money anyway.

Match, match, match... That is all that model railroaders want. LION does not bother to match anything. Him picks out by eye several earth tones, (well him actually uses grimy-subway tones) puts a spot or two of each on a disposable plastic lid (the kind you get on your soda pop at Burger King -- Lion has them by the thousand) and him dabbles into each color as him applies them, it makes a streaky, mottled, finish than looks more natural than any single color could not matter how well you match it.

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Cheap craft acrylics vs WS earth pigments?
Posted by Santa Fe all the way! on Friday, September 4, 2015 3:15 AM
I'm very familiar with the Woodland Scenics earth pigments and was wondering could I substitute acrylic craft paint with similar results? If so, could someone list the WS colors and a brand/color of craft paint that would match it? Thank you for your help.
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