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I haven't used Tamiya's product, nor any other such product from other makers.  I use pastel chalks, and grind and mix them as I go.  I bought a set of earth colors, a dozen sticks ranging from dark brown to a yellow ochre, with a stick of black included. It was ten bucks at a local art supply store (long since closed, but Richard Blick opened a store here a couple years later).


I'll clarify that it's not that I look down on such products, nor on modelers who use them.  It's that I learned to make my own, because I came up in the days before such products were ready-made and for sale on a hobby shop's shelves.


And to follow on that, I recognize an advantage to such products, particularly for new modelers-they eliminate the time needed to learn the technique by trial-and-error, and for even experienced modelers, they practically guarantee consistent results.


"Weather" (pun intended) you buy the Tamiya set or something else, it'll probably last you a long, long time.  It doesn't take large quantities to achieve the effects.  Really just a paintbrush-load, a very small pinch.


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