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

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~