Nothing against them but I’m lazy,I don’t want to get involved in mixing colors,rather stick with Model paint.
I hear ya. I don’t build enough to run out of anything myself lol, and I also have a decent supply of paint, but they look interesting.
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I would almost be ashamed to show my paint stash
Take a look on you tube for all off your answers they have it all,from thinning to air brushing my thinner is homemade from a recipe i got there.once I found the sweet spot I found it was so close to my once favorite Polly S, so now I won’t need to rely on brand name ( model paint)
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Craft paints? Aren’t all hobby paints ‘craft’ paints?
I use JO SONJA’S Artist colours, (matte fluid acrylic),tube paint for all sorts of things. But I have sprayed it. The below tram is exclusively JO SONJA’S tube paint through my airbrush. Thin to about 50-50 with water. A few drops of flow medium.
bruce
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The colors are clear and have great tone.
The tram looks amazing
You me both….
For a specialised finish I usually use a rattle-can and if no alternative (e.g. gloss finish) I’ll unpack the airbrush & self-mix. I also keep some Humbrol pots of various metallic finishes. But for everything else – figures, vehicles, groundwork etc. the above is my entire paint stash, enabling every colour of the rainbow. I think they qualify as craft paints i.e. cheap acrylics.
Horses for courses - I wouldn’t use them for a factory-fresh finish, but I’m only interested in operational battle-worn vehicles so I’ve never understood the logic of applying meticulous & comparatively expensive paint jobs…and then weathering. I don’t see the point, when the original finish was unlikely to have been perfect anyway. Here’s some random old examples of what can be done with ONLY craft paints, exclusively applied with soft brushes…
If the aim is “realism” (surely the primary reaon for making models?) it can be approximated on a very, very low budget 
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What’s the story with the shot up car?
Ken
I was going to give you the link but I can’t get to the archived old Armorama site (File not found) - it was in the Diorama forum early 2017, I called it “A Shot in the dark” depicting a Russian partisan hit on a German staff car. From my own file…
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Not yet used them through an AB, but frequent user for groundwork and I have rcently started trying then out for some weathering bits. So far, so good.
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