enamels or acrylics?

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77sunsetstrip
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enamels or acrylics?

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I'm just getting back into modeling and have purchased my first airbrush but can't decide yet between working with enamels or acrylics. I would appreciate any advice that you might offer a novice painter.
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Acrylics are a lot easier to work with, that's usually what I use anyway. I'm sure there's a good case to be made for enamels, but I'm not the one to make it.

It's hard to beat water cleanup with an airbrush.

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Go acrylic and don't look back. Enamels are more pain than their worth, not that they don't have some strong points.
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Enamels always gummed up my airbrush. Acrylics and Lacquers are the only way to fly.
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