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Jeremy wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:29 pm Humbrols are for old farts because they expect to die before the tin is empty as a result of the toxic fumes. They also love raping and murdering the planet. Acrylics are what all the cool kids use. And vegans. :finger:
Errrrrrr?
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I stopped using vegans, they don't react well to a bacon-based primer...
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Essex Boy wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:07 pm
Jeremy wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:29 pm Humbrols are for old farts because they expect to die before the tin is empty as a result of the toxic fumes. They also love raping and murdering the planet. Acrylics are what all the cool kids use. And vegans. :finger:
Errrrrrr?
Best change soon EB before it’s guilty by association.... :lol:
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Zenbadger wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2018 6:00 pm I stopped using vegans, they don't react well to a bacon-based primer...
You have to massage the lard into all the crevices
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Jeremy wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:29 pm Humbrols are for old farts because they expect to die before the tin is empty as a result of the toxic fumes. They also love raping and murdering the planet. Acrylics are what all the cool kids use. And vegans. :finger:
I've never used vegans for painting. Do you chain them to the work bench and solder the bases to the chains.
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Acrylics are the Devils smegma though....
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goat major wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:37 pm acrylic-only is so last year. Real cool kids are into a fusion of retro-chic humbrol and modernist acrylic exterior
Bloody hell I’m cool! 8-)

Humbrol black enamel undercoat and acrylic varnish: it’s so 21st Century. Halfords spray undercoat is so last week.
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Poundland matt black enamel undecoat, acrylics for main paint job, Poundland gloss varnish then a coat of Daley-Rowney matt enamel varnish. Jobs a goodun.
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Degrease, acid etch primer, Vallejo paint, Vallejo gloss, doctored Daler Rowney matt varnish, steel base. I reckon it's increasingly looking likely that they will out live me.
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Mine will be buried along side me to combat the legions of the dead.
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