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One of my personal favs of the new products: Russian Aviation Primer Color

Mr. Paint is a brand new brand from Slovakia, founded and managed by the always helpful Mr. Rene Molnar. Beside its authenticity which is based on research and knowledge, the product features are absolutely amazing in terms of applicability as well.

If you are used to Tamiya and Gunze/Mr. Hobby you will find that Mr.Paint colors enhance your capabilities, rather than reducing it like water based colors of several vendors. You dont have to learn a new science, you now have more "triggers to play with" while using your previous experiences.

You are now about to enter the Ink-side of paints.

Usually we have to deal with two main ingredients when it comes to a color:

Pigmentation
Carrier Medium

Both are really important when we characterize a color. I will try to keep it simple and just focus on the reasons why it works so well:

-The carrier medium is super thin
-The pigmentation is super fine, delivering an extremely well coverage at the very same time.

Why is that a good thing?

Because a super thin carrier medium delivers an extremly good atomization while a proper pigment delivers the neccessary coverage. This combination is leading to super soft edges and blending effects, reducing the amount of color required.

Does that make sense? No?

Ok, here we go: On a standard Acrylic Color you have quite a thick carrier medium which is something like an acrylic resin aktually. This is the reason why you cannot shoot Tamiya or Mr. Color - type colors straight out of the bottle, expecting a soft blending paint jet. You need to thin it by like 30% at least in order to get a soft blending.

Thats not really a problem most of the time. It can be a big problem when it comes to paint schemes featuring a fine mottling though.

My experience is, that Mr. PAINT´s colors makes tasks like this more easy.

The greatest potencial I see on preshading, postshading and blending effects. No thinners are required. The product is ready to use for application by airbrush.

Last but not least: Metalic Colors

Rene also managed to create some great metallizers. They work exactly the same drill you are already used to on other metallizers: Gloss black basecoat with Acrylics, let it dry for like 20 minutes and there you go.

I recommend a good read to you, written back in 2004 by Matt Swan of Swannysmodels, named "The Secret Life of Alclad II".

You may wonder why I refer to another manufacturer right here. Its because the Metalic Colors of Mr. PAINT do have the very same characteristics as those of the Alclad II range. First I had the impression that this must be an OEM product, but I soon find that this is not the case.

You´ll find find Mr.Paint´s Metallic Colors in the Metallic Colors / Pigments Section. Check it out! :-)

In the following you can convince yourself in the product properties, on the example of Mr.Paint MRP-5 Black/Basic Color as well as Mr.Paint MRP-4 White/Basic White. I also involved Mr. Hobby´s Red Oxide Surfacer as an alternative primer for zenithal light effects (Setting the source of light obve of the model by highlighting upper parts).

Primer from the Rattle Can, directly onto the model, twice.
After a mist of Mr. Hobby Radome, aiming in the upper parts of the piece mainly: Panel lines are half masked and Mr. Paint MRP-5 Black has been applied on that edge.
Same procedure, the other way around. Result: Asymmetrical preshading for panel joint lines.
Mr. Hobby Radome has been dilluted with Levelling thinner down to 30Color/70Thinner and applied. After this step Radome has been brightened up with MRP-4 White and misted onto the piece. We now have the lower areas darker and the upper areas brighter: Zenithal Light.

This fuselage half has been prepared for woodgrain decal application. Thats the reason for picking Radome as a base tone. This piece comes out of the 1/48th Mirage Hobby Halberstadt CL.IV (Rol). Thanks to Piotr from Mirage Hobbys for providing the kit.

Please note the super soft blending as well as the dots on the nail heads have been achived using Mr. Paint MRP-5 Black straight from the bottle.

Mr.Paint Uschi Mirage Hobby — Nice teamwork. :-)

Superfine Lines....click to enlarge

People who were using ALC Smoke often said that they were satisfied by the atomization and the fine lines that they were able to spray with, but they were not fine with the color it self. Too much on the blueish side. Could have been me. I understand that because I have been there. Now imagine that you have a Black, providing more coverage with perfect atomization. Thats what we need for a fine line preshading in Black, right? Yep, there you go:

A lil example based on Mr.Paint RLM 02 for German Luftwaffe.

MR. Paint`s Chrome and RLM-02 prior washings filters and further treatments. Note the fine blending at the shadows.These effects have been applied free-handed and straight out of the bottle. I used a Harder&Steenbeck Infinity with a 0.15 noozle. Actually the product did all the work. I just had to tell where exactly. :)

Here is where we are after washes and detailing. I also applied some filters to generate more variation and contrast.

Mr.Paint — Ready for kickin´ into the scene high gear....

MRP-1 Turqiose Cockpit 30ml (19,67/100ml)

Mi-17, Mi-24, MiG-21, Mig-23, MiG-25....shall I continue? Nah..I think you know what I mean. Thats the Russian standard Cockpit Color. You know it anyway...:-) Taken from the real thing, btw.

5,90 €

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Superfine Lines....click to enlarge

A lil example based on Mr.Paint RLM 02 for German Luftwaffe.

Russian WWII Aircraft Camouflage Colors

Russian Exteriour Detail

German WWII RAL Standards for AFV

Modern Federal Standard Aircraft Colors

Russian Modern Accessories

Ukrainian Airforce Camouflage Colors

Russian Modern Interiour

German Luftwaffe RLM Colors

Klick on the Tupolev picture to find more cool colors of the Mr. Paint Range