[Whiterook]

Hmmmm, I haven't seen the Apple Barrel brand, but I used Plaid "for Plastics" paint to do the two Air Pack minis entries at Days of Wonder. It worked really well, and I decided I'd use them for all my future minis painting.

Then, I saw a buddy of mine on the model forum (razorboy) using Plaid "Folk Art" acrylics on an Opel Blitz he was doing for a model build contest on another website, and I was incredibly impressed with the effects he managed with them...absolutely incredible and gorgeous. It convinced me to add the Folk Art bottles to my painting arsenal for modeling and minis! Also, the "for Plastics" version only has about a dozen colors; whereas, the "Folk Art" Plaids have a ton of colors, so that further convinced me! Both can be bought very inexpensively at Michael's or WalMart.

To digress a tad, I was originally shying away from these bottled acrylics based on posts from Roobarb at DoW, in which he advised to avoid the artist type acrylics for minis painting.....but figured I was safe with the "for Plastics" version, as it is supposedly made just for plastics. OK, here's the kicker: The Folk Art version works JUST AS WELL as the version that is supposedly just for plastic, so hey, I'm there!!!

That's acrylics 101 for today, class!