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Craft Acrylic Paint - Can be found at any craft shop ie: Micheals, Hobby Lobby etc. Main paints are Ceramcoat and Craft Smart, they come in 2oz bottles. You can use full strength or even dilute it, and of course can be mixed. Bottles usually run around $1 which makes it a lot more cheaper than model paints. There hundreds of colors and you can mix any to get what color you want.

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Hobby Lobby also has Gloss and a Matte finish as well, under their Tree House Studio name brand, These cans go for the same price as the testors model master 1oz. Acryl about $5.50/ea

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