Reviewed by Geoff Coughlin
Price around £8.45 GBP each set (Mar 2013)
Our thanks to The Airbrush Company Ltd for supplying the review samples. Get these excellent sets here now at: www.airbrushes.com
Lifecolor paint
Water soluble acrylic colours for modelling and hobby. Life Color is excellent for paint brushing or airbrushing on plastic, resin, metal, vinyl, wood, cloth and ceramic.
Contrast and Desaturation sets
Lifecolor has produced a series of ‘Contrast and Desaturation’ paint sets designed to achieve depth effects on your armour models in a fast and effective way. Each set includes 3 paints to use in step-by-step sequence.
This set includes:
- UA 249 Dunkelgelb Flashed Shade
- UA 250 Dunkelgelb Base Colour
- UA 251 Dunkelgelb Deep Shade
This set includes:
- UA 252 Panzergrau Flashed Shade
- UA 253 Panzergrau Base Colour
- UA 254 Panzergrau Deep Shade
- UA 255 Olive Drab Flashed Shade
- UA 256 Olive Drab Base Colour
- UA 257 Olive Drab Deep Shade
- UA 258 4B0 Green Flashed Shade
- UA 259 4B0 Green Base Colour
- UA 260 4B0 Green Deep Shade
These paints appear to offer a relatively painless way of creating different tones and effects on your armour models. There are many and varied approaches that go into creating your final ‘look’ on your model, whatever your interest but it seems that these complimentary sets could save you time and that’s no small benefit!
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Geoff C.