streetsquid,

I must say, I do it find it mystifying that one could find anything more interesting than sand blowing in from AZ, but your tips on using health safe acrylic paints and water colors for models is good stuff. Thank you. (Why: the wife/kids will no longer be complaining about the cancer causing paint & smelly fumes originating from a model studio and stinking up the family home. Seemly, to people like pattoncommander and the others endorsing lead based China painted items, I suppose it would come as a shock that not everyone wishes to die young leaving a good looking corpse behind, as in why else would any 19 year old trooper want to drive a Pershing in Korea. Better a grunt in the mud than work in a moving target. Now calm down all, just funning with a tough old retired army warrant officer, and he has heard it before, at least a million times. With total adult supervision from a Tamiya USA winning & IPMS 1/135 modeler friend, here is an image of work in progress for my Tamiya Pz4 panzer commander using Tamiya health safer acrylic paints and professional artist water based colors (plus a peak at the paint curing on the Tamiya Pz4 build without tracks and RC gear installed).

John