The Paints

MisterKit, out of Italy, so far has released paints for two major airforces of WW1 – Germany and Britain. Their next release will be paints for Austria-Hungary, followed by and somewhere further in the future paints for France. There are 10 paints in the German line and 5 paints in the British line.

Paint Test

When I received the paints, I decided to test them along the lines of strength and durability. I found an old sheet of Squadron styrene lying around gathering dust. I dusted it off and put a strip of tape down the middle to divide the sheet in half. I wrapped one side in "Saran Wrap" ('cling film') and washed the other side in the normal way I wash kits - first with dish soap and then with Polly S' Plastic Prep. Once dry I removed the "Saran Wrap" and sprayed both sides with the Fokker Turquoise. I let it dry at least 24 hours (like I normally let my models dry between applications of different colored paints) and then removed the tape down the middle. This left me with two sides - one "unwashed" and one "washed", which I marked on the sheet with a 'W'.

I then applied a strip of masking tape right off the roll to both the "unwashed" and "washed" sides. I also stuck a piece on each side of "de-tacked" tape, meaning I stuck the tape to my forehead before the plastic sheet to take some of the "stickiness" away. I normally do this when I mask over acrylics to avoid pulling up paint. After letting the tape sit for approximately 10 minutes, I removed the tape. The results were what I was expecting.

On the unwashed side, both "types" of tape ("normal" and "de-tacked") pulled up paint. On the washed side, only the "normal" tape pulled up paint. Believe it or not, this is exactly how Polly Scale behaves as well.