Thank you Jakko for mentioning me and my use of the cheapest craft paint available. Over the many years I've been at this hobby

I've used almost every "model paint" on the market at one time or another and the results were fine I guess. I even go back far enough

when the old Testors enamels which required thinners were the only game in town.

Then came out all the other stuff which I thought rather expensive, I mean "weathering powders" come on.

Get some dirt from the garden and some Elmers glue.

Mixing, yeah gotta do some mixing to get the tones right but what else have you got to do?

I use many, many layers and washes and am not gentle about it, after all what's 'gentle' about a tank or a wreck?

Jim.