"Help finding gray" Topic
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Yellow Admiral | 11 Nov 2019 12:55 p.m. PST |
My ancient bottle of Pactra A44 Light Gray finally dried up. I need a replacement. Before I go spend a fortune on experiments, can anyone recommend a very light, near-white neutral gray with excellent coverage, good flow (no clumping, self-leveling) and dries thin? It doesn't have to match FS 36495, but that is about the color I'm looking for. It also doesn't have to be a water-cleanup acrylic; I'll take an enamel with the right properties. I'd prefer a flat finish, but semi-gloss is okay. I normally do a lot of adjustments to the finish with clearcoats anyway. The only thing I don't like about full-gloss paints is the way they resist overpainting (e.g. future coats). - Ix |
HMS Exeter | 11 Nov 2019 1:05 p.m. PST |
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Sir Able Brush | 12 Nov 2019 5:02 a.m. PST |
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JAFD26 | 12 Nov 2019 5:38 a.m. PST |
'Granite Gray', # 21392 in the Apple Barrel line from Plaid Enterprises, plaidonline.com, may be what you want. Or maybe not. If retailer in your neighborhood carries it, give it a try, maybe. |
IronDuke596 | 12 Nov 2019 6:40 a.m. PST |
Foundry acrylic Arctic Grey. |
HMS Exeter | 12 Nov 2019 7:05 a.m. PST |
Sir ABle Brush for the win! Your ebay-fu is truly powerful. |
Yellow Admiral | 12 Nov 2019 6:29 p.m. PST |
I saw the eBay seller in Poland that Sir Able Brush pointed out. Those are the later small 10 ml bottles from the Testors era, and the shipping is 3x the cost of the paint. If *either* of those things were changed, I'd have bought some from them already. I also found a Greek hobby shop selling the old 19.X ml bottles, but I've been warned not to try to get anything shipped to or from Greece. I'm still hoping to find a replacement paint still in production. Thanks everybody for the suggestions. - Ix |
Yellow Admiral | 12 Nov 2019 6:38 p.m. PST |
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Yellow Admiral | 04 Jan 2020 9:23 p.m. PST |
Follow up: I bought a bunch of different super-light grays, and have settled on Vallejo 70.993 White Grey as my favorite. It doesn't flow quite as well as the Pactra did, but it's about the same color, and it has really good coverage. - Ix |
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