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  2. Humbrol - Wikipedia

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    Humbrol is possibly best known for the enamel paints manufactured for use with plastic model kits, such as Airfix, Tamiya and Revell kits. The paints are manufactured in multiple finishes: matt, satin, gloss, metallic and metalcote. The archetypal container was a 14 ml tin with the lid illustrating the paint colour and an embossed reference number.

  3. Roy Cross (artist) - Wikipedia

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    Much of the Airfix artwork was destroyed but the lids of many millions of boxes remain. [3] Cross was interviewed by James May in James May's Top Toys, discussing the changing tastes in box art and the airbrushing out of bombs and explosions from his pictures. Cross died after a short illness on 24 April 2024, one day after his 100th birthday ...

  4. Airfix Model World - Wikipedia

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    Airfix Model World is a monthly magazine published in the United Kingdom by Key Publishing since 2010, produced under licence from Airfix. [2] It covers the hobby of plastic modelmaking , particularly model aircraft, but also including model cars, ships, sci-fi/spacecraft, armoured vehicles and figures. [ 3 ]

  5. Airfix - Wikipedia

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    Airfix is a British brand and former manufacturing company which produced injection-moulded plastic scale model kits. In the UK, the name 'Airfix' has become practically synonymous with plastic models of this type, "they became a sort of generic name for any plastic, injection-moulded model kit".

  6. Acrylic paint - Wikipedia

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    Red acrylic paint squeezed from a tube Example of acrylics applied over each other. Experimental pictures with "floating" [1] acrylic paint Acrylic paint is a fast-drying paint made of pigment suspended in acrylic polymer emulsion and plasticizers, silicone oils, defoamers, stabilizers, or metal soaps. [2]

  7. Airfix Magazine - Wikipedia

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    Airfix Magazine was the first British magazine dedicated to the hobby of plastic modelling. It was launched in 1960 in association with the model kit company Airfix, and ceased publication in 1993. Originally a small-format magazine, it increased in sized eventually to A4 format in January 1976. It covered various scale modelling subjects ...

  8. Acrylic painting techniques - Wikipedia

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    Fluid paint, in general, is a moveable form of acrylic paint. Fluid paints can be used like watercolors, for acrylic pouring, or for glazing and washes. To create a more fluid consistency, water or a pouring medium is added to the paint. The ratio of paint to water/pouring medium depends on how thick the glaze or pouring paint is expected to be.

  9. List of scale model sizes - Wikipedia

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    Airfix used to produce in this scale. 1:1000: 0.305 mm This is a scale used in Germany for pre-finished airliner models. Herpa and Hogan Wings produces several models in this scale. Bandai produces spacecraft models from Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Ares Games produces the Sails of Glory line in this scale. Common scale for architectural ...