New Transparent Hobby Paint!!

Anyone else mess with this stuff from House of Kolor after picking up samples... the small 3 oz enamel bottles through an airbrush from Walmart?<br><br>I have. I am not impressed. The pigments look GREAT in the bottle, but the stuff is so thin that it takes half a bottle to do one car. I've experimented with both the "Transparent Colors" and "Bright Colors" -- the boxed sets -- and I'm finding that without any same brand airbrush thinner, they spatter, and WITH (5:1, as suggested), they're just too darn thin. Took a whole bottle to do a nice flying colors bright orange on two cars, and it came out matte flat. I was planning a clear coat anyway, but still....<br><br>I guess I gotta try way lower airbrush pressures. They remind me more of lacquers than enamels in consistency.<br><br>- E

I dont think House of Kolor is doing their self any favors by selling this paint in stores like Wal-mart, esp after hearing your story, I cant say what it is...I mean, the HoK I use is in qt containers &amp; you have to use HoK reducer &amp; HoK catalyst &amp; that is a must...no if &amp;'s or but's about it...its a system, a complete system. I stand by what I have said all along...if you use the complete system the right way its going to be hard to beat...by anybody's standards, I said hard, not impossible. I have put this paint through some extreme test from dropping, melting, freezing, I set one outside during the winter.....all winter, &amp; I could go on &amp; on. The strore owner where I get mine from will not sell it over the counter...unless your a professional...or do work for him,lol.<br><br>Are you sure the stuff they are selling isnt for wall's...<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src="http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif" alt=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--><br><br>S~

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The complete product name is, I believe, "Valspar Kustom Kolor by House of Kolor".<br><br>The text in the box says specifically that it's NOT the same paint as HoK, but that the pigments and color mixes are the same, and that it's engineered by HoK just for modeling to the same quality standards. <br><br>The stuff doesn't smell like petrochemical thinned enamel. The airbrush thinner doesn't smell at all. When overspray gets on your hands, it's not sticky like petrochem enamel. If the boxes and bottles didn't say "enamel" I'd guess it was acrylic. Maybe it is. There's no tendency for the pigment to settle out in the bottles. Weird stuff. I guess I gotta try a few more colors. <br><br>- E

Hey Eric...<br><br>If you want to sample some of the HoK I have shoot me an email, I have just about every color they make...Kandy's, Pearls, Dry Flakes, base coat stuff...just about everything, I do a lot of repair work for the shop owner. I just like to see what other folks can do with this stuff...I can send some paint allready reduced in a bottle &amp; some catalyst in another bottle...once catalyzed pot life is about 2 hours, mixture is 2:1 for the catalyst, you can reduce it all you want.<br><br>I have done this for a couple members in the past...now its pretty much all they use.<br><br>All you gotta do is provide the bottles...no biggie...lmk.<br><br>S~