Reply to "Saving On Paint--Mixing and Pitfalls"

You can use most anything with color in it for scenery and objects in the background however when painting precision scale models house paint and common arts & crafts paint will obscure fine detail. The pigment in fine model paint is ground MUCH finer than common paint and will cover with a much thinner coat. Of course you need to apply the good stuff with an airbrush to do this costly paint justice, though since it goes on so thin you use less of it. The transition from running toy trains to building a scale model railroad can be rather costly. Lucky we each get to determine our own comfort zone for cost vs realism and what makes us happy.          j