Vallejo Basic Colors Model Air Paint Case, 17ml

These are excellent paints, as are the vast majority of Vallejo products. This particular item comes with 72 17mL bottles of paint with eyedropper caps and screw-on lids. They mix easily by hand shaking, and they do not need to be further thinned for use in an airbrush. It might seem like you're just paying the same for less paint and more thinner, but that's really not the case. The pigments are ground extra fine for the Air line, and the thinner makeup means they brush on nicer than thick paint as well, it's not solely for airbrushing.It comes with three really nice brushes, including two with triangular handles. I had never used a triangular brush before and was shocked at how much more control I felt I had over the bristles, particularly on the #0 detail brush. Really, really nice and I will definitely be buying some more.You also get two wall charts of the Vallejo color range, one of which includes a color chart with equivalent paint numbers for RAL/RML/FS, Vallejo, Tamiya, Gunze-Sangyo, Humbrol, Revell, Life Color, and Testors (!), as well as a full list of Vallejo paint chips and their corresponding numbers (and RML designations where appropriate). I Blu-Tak'd these to the wall above my hobby bench as soon as I saw them.The "suitcase" packaging is excellent. It will protect the paints inside from any bumps, knocks, or crushing and the custom cut foam holds 72 bottles with a slot below the handle for whatever else you want to jam in there. I ordered my set from England and it arrived with no damage, no leakage, no problems.I've already ordered other items in the Vallejo range including their full RML color set and three of their primers. I will definitely be using Vallejo paints on all my modelling and hobby projects for a long time to come.

Great colors. The Model Air paints always go on with my airbrush just right. No need to thin. I use a grey primer by Tamiya, although for yellow or white pigments use a white primer since these colors are a bit translucent and they look better on top of white primer.

Simply the best acrylic paint I've ever used for miniatures (and I've tried them all). The color if bold, covers in one shot, doesn't flatten details and the dropper bottle should be the standard for all acrylics. They're pricey, but there's just nothing I'd trust more. The carrying case is awesome too. It helped make a bit more room in my painting area since I can crack it open, garb the paint I need and slip it back underneath the desk.

Whether this kit is useful for you depends on the price at the time you purchase it, and what you already have for paints. The kit comes with 72 paints (#71.001-71.072) plus 70.510, 70.520, 70.522 and 70.524 which are gloss, matte and satin varnish as well as a medium thinner respectively. With that said, in the Model Air line there are approximately 204 shades so 72 of them is only about a third of your available color range; and what you do get is heavily biased towards greens and browns. Likely due to many models being of a military nature, and green and browns being heavily utilized in various camouflage patterns.For the colors I've used so far, the majority have been sprayed in a Badger 105 Patriot airbrush. I haven't yet needed to do any color mixing so I don't know how well they blend; but as-is they spray well, giving moderate to-good coverage depending on your color used, base-color/primer and my *very* novice level of skill with an airbrush. If you are doing large areas, then adding a drop or so of retarder (not included) will help prevent tip-dry; although I just keep a moist sponge handy and regularly dab my airbrush tip as it seemed to work better for me.The case itself is surprisingly nice; made from nice thick plastic with a high-density foam insert. The paint bottles are held securely with space near the handle large enough to fit another dozen or so bottles of paint or whatever you'd like. For a similar quality and size case on it's own I would expect to pay a couple Jacksons to a Grant retail.My kit also came with a set of three brushes, a P515 #3/0 which is a very tiny round (<1/16" or so); a P515 #01 which is another round, approximately 2-3 times larger than the previous, and a P55.004, which is a flat brush approximately 1/8-1/3" wide. I've used the #3/0 to touch up areas I've missed with my airbrush or just detail work and it seems to be a very nice brush and works well with this paint even though it's paint designed for airbrushing. I've seen *similar* brushes retail in hobby shops for over ten bucks each.Basically what I'm getting at, is if you get the kit for around two Franklins; you're getting the paint for a pretty decent discount even without the case and brushes; just make sure that the colors included will be useful to you.The only reason I docked this a star is because I would have preferred a broader range of colors included, or Vallejo renaming it to "Military Model Air" or such. As it is many of the colors are ultimately very close to each other unless you're building your models for absolute accuracy, in which case you're probably mixing your own shades anyway.

I had to order this kit twice--the first one went "missing in action" if you know what I mean. It was on my doorstep, then it wasn't on my doorstep. No-one knows why...enough of the mystery. This is a great kit if you are painting vehicles like halftracks and tanks. I thought I could use it for aircraft. It only has a few aircraft colors. But it does have the complete series from 71.001 White to 71.072 Gun Metal inclusive of all the low number series colors. It also has matt, satin, and glossy varnishes as well as Airbrush Thinner. It's a great starter kit especially for land models and has some aircraft colors, but if you are looking to get into aircraft modeling specifically get the sixteen color packs for the various countries instead.

First off, I haven't used these for airbrushing but rather as thin layers for brush painting. As compared to the Game and Model color paints, the Air paint series still has good pigment, just thinned down. I've used this thinner paint for glazes, washes, and translucent highlights.The variety of colors is nice as it allows a broad range of colors but also ranges within some of the color ranges to allow highlights and shades.