An Excellent Oil Paint Alternative
Part 1: What are Dense Acrylic Series Paints?
Skillset: Beginner to Advanced
by James Wooldridge
The Abteilung 502 Dense Acrylic Tube tube range is ideal for artists, fantasy figures, science fiction, naval, aircraft, and military modelers. The dense acrylic formula offers maximum opacity and coverage, combined with the vividness and intensity of the color, and provides a matte finish.
Specially designed for figure painters and advanced modelers looking for the highest quality pigment finish, Abteilung 502 artist colors also have fine art applications such as painting on canvas or airbrushing or illustration, combining the short drying times with the smooth finish and endless possibilities of acrylics.
The High-Quality Dense Acrylics range from Abteilung 502 covers all the needs that artists and modelers may ever have. Their matte finish makes them perfect for figure painting and detailing, although they can be used in many ways. You can check the pigment equivalence table.
Top 25 Great Reasons To Use Abteilung 502 Dense Color
- High-Quality Artist Grade Acrylic
- Maximum Opacity with High-Quality Pigments
- Vividness and Intensity of Color
- Water Soluble
- Odorless
- High Coverage (Opacity)
- Smooth Matt Finish
- Additive & Subtractive
- Thin with Distilled Water or AK Interactive 3rd Gen Thinner (AK11500)
- Brush-able using Paint Tray or Wet Palette
- Drying Retardent Gel
- Glaze Medium
- Texture Capable
- Can be Airbrushed (recommend minimum needle size 0.3mm)
- Tip Dry Free
- Re-activatable
- Ideal Companion for AK Interactive Weathering Pencils
- Ultimate Weathering Effects, Chipping, and Abrasion
- Recess Detailing
- Highlight Detailing
- Element Detailing and Framing
- Oil Paint Alternative
- Mineral Spirit and Odourless Thinner Free
- Easy to Clean
Creating White Winter Camouflage – A Better Experience
Winter Camouflage Test Macro Image of reactivated Abteilung 502 Dense Acrylic Pure White airbrushed over 3Gen 3B AU/ZB AU (Soviet Red Army AFV Paint used in the mid-1930s until replaced by 4BO introduced in 1939). Outstanding wear characteristics on various Winter Camouflage surfaces are achieved using a soft synthetic brush moistened with Distilled Water. Hairspray nor Chipping Fluids were used to create the realistic surface abrasion effect. Surface erosion occurred naturally. Overall, the White Winter Camouflage results are on track.
The Abteilung 502 Dense Acrylic Full Line of Colors
Essential Auxiliary Essential Products
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The full process and How To follow in Part 2.
James Wooldridge is An enthusiastic scale modeler, researcher, amateur historian, and contributor to scale modeling sites, including Scalemates. He is an active and progressive Facebook Group Expert, Presenter, and Scale Modelling Club Video Host.