Ref: LC SPG03
Price: £19.99 GBP (includes 6-bottle set)
Review by Geoff Coughlin (Sep 2012)
Our thanks to The Airbrush Company Ltd for supplying our review sample. Get this set here. 
Water soluble acrylic colours for modelling and hobby. Lifecolor is excellent for paint brushing or airbrushing on plastic and resin.
Now there’s a challenge if ever there is one – recreating realistic-looking rust streaks and areas on our models! We have various HD videos and help in your Techniques Bank here in SMN that touch on this area – indeed, many of the builds (especially maritime and armour subjects) feature rusting to varying degrees. However, new variations on a theme continue to emerge and here’s another manufacturer offering a painting and weathering solution using pigments.
We’ll be looking for an opportunity to try out this pigment/paint combo, so keep an eye out in your Armour Techniques bank areas of SMN for that.
In this latest paint set from Lifecolor there are 6 bottles – 3 pigments and 3 paints:
- PG 107 Eroding Burned Rust
- PG 108 Rust Oxidation State
- PG 109 Rust Weathering Marks
- UA 907 Burned Rust
- UA 908 Corroded Rust
- UA 909 Streaking Rust
Using Lifecolor:
- Clean surfaces to be painted
- For airbrushing, dilute the colour to a milky consistency using water or Lifecolor Thinner.
- Airbrush at very low pressures. (Iwata airbrushes give the excellent performance and atomisation at low pressures.)
- Apply colour in thin coats with a brush or airbrush
- Allow to dry completely between coats
- Clean your airbrush with airbrush cleaner and flush through with water
Recommended
Geoff C.