New Transparent Hobby Paint!!

Walmart, Valspar House of Kolor "Kustom Kolor" translucent enamel, pack of six 1-oz colors, blue, orange, green, pink, gold, and red... about $18. You need airbrush thinner, too -- another four bucks.<br><br>What a deal!<br><br>- E

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"House of Kolor" is the only custom paint I use on restorations...in fact I would be willing to compare HoK to any other custom paint out there...that is if you use the complete HoK system as recommended; Paint / catalyst / reducer &amp; the Klear as I am...you just aint gonna beat it...you can use PPG all you want, which is another great paint btw that I used before HoK.<br>So, if you can get it at your local Wal-Mart or where ever then you need to do so immediately before its all gone. Its not allways easy to find, this is the first I hear of it being localy sold over the counter, I have only been able to get it in qt sizes from doing some repair work on a paint shop, &amp; they go from $195 a qt to around $85 for the Kandy Klear paint, looks like the most $$$ is Apple Kandy Red...you can also get some Kameleon dry pearl flakes for around $350 for a jar the size of a D-battery.<br><br>If you get some, shot me an email.<br><br>S~

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Hi Eric,<br><br>Is this paint to be used directly onto the bare metal?<br>No base coat or anything like that required? And what would<br>you use as an airbrushed clear over the top? <br><br>I'm looking for something that would be more durable than<br>acrylics. Do you think this paint would be fairly rugged? <br><br>Thanks for posting this info. <br>David

Basically no finish coat is *supposed* to be used over a polished clean metal. The small HoK bottles are not acrylic. <br><br>Personally, I've found that the hobby acrylics are somewhat tougher than some of the kandy enamels, especially things like the Metalcast and Krylon stained glass paint. Great color -- especially from the Metalcast -- but very, very fragile.<br><br>Which is why I mix my own paint now based on an acrylic clear.<br><br>- E

OK. I'll be heading down to the Vancouver, WA Walmart. None of the Seattle area Walmarts say they cary it. Luckily my inlaws live down there so I go there anyway. Actually, if they lived in Hawaii, that would be lucky. <br><br>Thanks for spreading the knowledge.<br>David