Lacquer Paint

[Masa Narita]

I came from Japan and live in Bay Area now.
In Japan, modeler generally use 3 types of paint color.
Those are Lacquer(Gunze Mr. Color), Water Acrylic(Tamiya, Gunze H series ) and
Enamel(Testor).
Lacquer is most popular for building plastic models and resin kit

I can not find any lacquer type of paint in the U.S.
Is there any regulation or something prohibited selling those in Toy or Hobby
shop?
If not, where can I get those?

Obviously, for figure painting, it is best to use lacquer paint.

Masa

[Ron Smith]

It's because you are now in the Peoples' Republic of Politically Correct
Sillyness, otherwise known as California.........they don't allow
lacquer there anymore.

[Plasticman]

On Fri, 7 May 1999 13:20:17 -0700, "Masa Narita" <mas...@att.net>
wrote:

>I came from Japan and live in Bay Area now.
>In Japan, modeler generally use 3 types of paint color.
>Those are Lacquer(Gunze Mr. Color), Water Acrylic(Tamiya, Gunze H series ) and
>Enamel(Testor).
>Lacquer is most popular for building plastic models and resin kit
>
>I can not find any lacquer type of paint in the U.S.
>Is there any regulation or something prohibited selling those in Toy or Hobby
>shop?
>If not, where can I get those?
>
>Obviously, for figure painting, it is best to use lacquer paint.
>
>Masa

Floquil at one time was a lacquer formula but due to all the concern
over health in this country Floquil altered their formula.I spoke to a
Testors representative a few weeks ago(Testors now owns Floquil) who
agreed with me that Floquil could be regarded as a kind of "modified
lacquer".The number of colors available has been reduced to a limited
number since Testor aqquired the line.Contributing to the problem is
the fact that we have just one company making Testors,Floquil and
Pactra paints due to all those company buy outs and corporate
mergers.RPM Corp. makes all those lines now.Many car modelers prefer
to use automotive acrylic lacquers,but these require that you use an
automotive primer under them,or they will destroy the plastic.You
won't find these at a hobby shop.A mail order company called Model Car
World offers thousands of pre-mixed auto acrylic lacquers and you can
buy Dupli Color touch up paint in spray cans at auto supply and some
dept. stores;these are lacquer also.You must have good ventilation in
the room and you must wear a respirator when working with these auto
lacquers.Breathing the fumes can make you very ill.

Most figure painters in the US would not agree that lacquer is the
best figure paint.Many use artist oils in tubes,or artist acrylic in
tubes,or hobby enamels(Testors,Humbrol) but I know of no figure
specialist who uses lacquers.The auto lacquers I mention above cannot
be used on figures because they dry so fast you cannot use with a
artist's brush;you can only airbrush or spray them.
Plasticman
>
>

[Don Schmitz]

...

> > Obviously, for figure painting, it is best to use lacquer paint.

Sorry, I can't help you with getting lacquer paint in CA, but I found it
a bit odd that you wanted to use it to paint figures. All of the figure
painters I know (including some very good ones) use artist's oils -
typically Winsor Newton brand. I'm fairly sure artists oils are
available even in CA. You do have to primer the surface first, but
hopefully you can still buy spraycans of enamel primer at a CA hardware
store.

Don Schmitz

[greengoose]

You just have to show ID first(@#%$ graffitti artists)
Pat
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