Lifecolor Acrylic Paints Base Color Set Art.DCS 02

Reviewed by Geoff Coughlin

Our thanks to The Airbrush Company Ltd for supplying the review samples www.airbrushes.com

   

You will likely be familiar with the other entries in Here Now relating to these excellent paints from Lifecolor. Many of the other sets are thoughtfully collated into sets relative to a theme that will interest scale modellers. This set, in contrast is a really handy box featuring twelve basic matt colours that we’re likely to use for umpteen uses during the course of our hobby. Usefully, their respective FS numbers have been attached and that’s always useful for aircraft scale modellers as well as others too of course.

The 12 bottles of acrylic paint included are a good selection of colours. Specifically the colours included are:

• LC 01      FS 37925               White
• LC 02      FS 37038               Black
• LC 03      FS 33591               Yellow
• LC 06      FS 31302               Red
• LC 10      FS 35052               Dark Blue
• LC 15      FS 33245               Tan
• LC 16      FS 30076               Raw Siena
• LC 17      FS 30108               Brown
• LC 35      FS35044                French Blue
• LC 36      FS 33275               Leather
• LC 37      FS 30040               Burnt Umber
• LC 40      FS 34062               Dragon Green

These colours are designed to be hand and airbrushed and have good opacity and durability. Lifecolor thinner is recommended. The box back contains useful information on how to work with these good quality modelling paints, and that’s always useful.

We’ll be looking to incorporate these paints into some of our projects and so further information about what we find will be contained in the relevant Build Now and Finished Now scale model reviews.

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Geoff