Hobby Paints - re liquitex?

> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 12:51:57 -0500

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> Only problem - Global Games went under sometime late last year.

Dennis Johnson, current owner of Global Games sent me email this morning. They
are in the process of reorganizing, and they should have their products back
on the market soon.

KR
> Their paints are still available, and Crazy Igor's in the US still has

> Has anyone on the list (or off the list) have experience painting minis

> with Liquitext Acrylics (or any other artist quality acrylics).

I've used some "artist" acrylics a small bit - mostly for very bright
detail colours on insignia markings, etc.  They do take longer to dry -
but I think the "hobby" acrylics are formulated to dry fast on purpose, so you
can work over small areas on a miniature without having to wait 15 minutes
between coats.  Yes they dry fast on your pallette - that's the tradeoff
for having them dry fast on the model.

I've had good success with a line of paints from a Canadian company called
"Global Games". They produced, among other things, a miniature game called
"Legions of Steel" which was awful (though it had great floor-map
templates
for  bunkers/starship corridors/etc).  Their paints were very good,
though. Their black and white are among the best I've used, being especially
flat
(which I like for "military" figs like SGII, as opposed to GW-style
scifi/fantasy stuff).  The paint comes in small bottles with a top like
an eye dropper (ie small nozzle with small cap, easy to get a precise amount
on your pallette, etc). The quantity is about double a GW bottle, and the cost
is about the same per bottle as GW. The range included a wide variety of
colours, including some great military colours like olive drab, flat
earth browns, etc - stuff that the GWs of the world don't make.  They
also produced a range of inks, which I have not used and can't speak for
(though
they come in the same easy-to-use containers).  And they sell empty
paint
containers - I can't emphasize enough how convenient and useful these
containers are.

Only problem - Global Games went under sometime late last year.

Their paints are still available, and Crazy Igor's in the US still has a
good selection (check out their website - I found them at
www.crazyigor.com
- did a search under "paint" and then looked for GGC - their code for
Global Games Company). They have good prices for stuff, too.