FusilierDan  | 11 Apr 2023 4:33 p.m. PST |
Acrylic paint was developed in 1934 by a German chemical company called BASF (patented by Rohm and Haas). By the 1940s, acrylic paints had become popular for home painting, because they were easier to use, easier to clean, dried faster, and were much less toxic than other paints. from here
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| Perris0707 | 11 Apr 2023 7:19 p.m. PST |
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| Stryderg | 11 Apr 2023 8:11 p.m. PST |
As with too many other things, nope. I would have guessed it was a bunch of chemists, or painters. |
| Mr Elmo | 12 Apr 2023 3:46 a.m. PST |
popular for home painting If it's cheap enough, I'm sure people would use house paint on miniatures. "They mixed up a whole gallon of French Blue!" |
| mildbill | 12 Apr 2023 5:24 a.m. PST |
howard hues is thinned house paint. |
| rmcaras | 12 Apr 2023 6:11 a.m. PST |
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| 14Bore | 12 Apr 2023 9:05 a.m. PST |
Never have, yet started using acrylics on my troops when my original Testors started running out all on my own as a cheaper and easier solution. |
 Parzival | 12 Apr 2023 9:16 a.m. PST |
Researched it recently, inspired about a novel featuring a famous forger of the WWII era, though acrylic was not the medium he used (though I was close in my suspicions that it was— the guess sparked the research). |
| Grelber | 12 Apr 2023 10:26 a.m. PST |
Like others, I switched to acrylics after discovering set up and clean up times were so much quicker that short sessions were viable and allowed me to get more painting done. Grelber |
| cavcrazy | 12 Apr 2023 11:55 a.m. PST |
Bless them for it, oils take too much time to dry! |
| robert piepenbrink | 13 Apr 2023 6:41 a.m. PST |
I notice no one's bringing up the old IR "long fiber enamel" which was standard with my people prior to acrylics. As with Grelber, a vast difference in drying time and clean-up--and a range of different techniques. Death on brushes, though. |
 Dye4minis | 13 Apr 2023 9:38 p.m. PST |
I must give credit to Duke Seified's wife around 1972- ish. She was an art student and convinced Duke to try to paint his figures in acrylic with a gesso primer. Custom Cast was the first (that I knew of) to offer small plastic jars of acrylic paint! Quite expensive in the day, but the rest is history. Kim Young was the first guy I ever saw to use flat black primer and probably the first to discover block painting! I finally dumped all those crummy enamels and my headaches went away! |
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