So why to people turn their nose up at Humbrol paints?

[phaidknott 7250xp 0]

Was in discussion with another gamer and was asked for a recipe for some WW2 15mm Russian infantry I’d done. When I said I used Humrol paints on them (been using them for decades), they looked aghast.

 

They are high pigmentation (perhaps a little too much), keep for decades (still have some in the old hard to open plastic pots), and cost about HALF of what the other paint brands charge. Now they do tend towards the military colours (so perhaps not that many choices if you are doing a high fantasy army), but have an excellent range for if you are doing anything historical.

 

But newer painters seem to turn their nose up at them without trying them out, they have my favourite metallic Gold and a Red to die for. Their matts are extremely matt, and the only thing I do tend to do with them is water them down a touch on my wet pallet.

 

But is it the fact they are cheaper that seems to have given them a bad reputation (I also see the OTT store has the range in stock), keep forever in the pots (no drying out like the GW paints) and they recently started doing dropper bottles alongside the plastic pot (ok my pots do have the occasional set of teeth marks on them as they are a bit hard to open, but perhaps that’s why they keep so long).

 

So have you used the Humbrol acrylics paints before? Did you find any issues with them, or are you a painting “grognard” and been using them for years?

[scribbs 14517xp 2]

Could the reaction be because they think you mean Humbrol enamels, not acrylics? I’ll admit to complete ignorance that Humbrol had an acrylic range – if someone said they used Humbrol paint I’d assume they were using enamels.

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