mr color paint?

[DARTHTODD]

I've ordered most of these paints from greatmodels.com recently. Short story: it's been a month, contacted them, they're not sure they're going to get them in at all. Anyone know of a place where I can order these from? I'm trying to paint a F-14 (not the Hase raised panel line kit by the way) macross colors and the kit has the colors listed in Mr. Color or GSI Creos Aqueous Hobby Color. Haven't found either. Please help me with this as I am anxious to get started, thanks.

[tetsujin]

The Gunze Lacquers are hard to find in the US because of EPA regulations limiting their importation. There are a few sources for those in the US, but I haven't tried any of them:

http://www.legendshobbies.com/paintetc.htm

http://www.greatmodels.com/

For importing, the usual choice is Rainbow 10:

http://www.rainbowten.co.jp/english/index.html

I got those links from a thread on Child of Mecha. I can't really vouch for them. I used to buy my Gunze paints from Giuliano's shop, but he closed it down recently.

As for the Gunze acrylics, those are relatively easy to find. They have them at http://www.gundamshop.com, for starters.

Also consider:

1: it's not always worth following colorguides (sometimes they're not that great, even on good kits)

2: For a real-world (subject) colorguide there's a strong possibility that those will be "standard" colors, marked "FS" or "RLM", as in "FS34287" or "RLM82" - those colors can be had from a variety of manufacturers (though they may vary slightly from manufacturer to manufacturer).

[Grayson72]

If you live in SF you can buy them from NewType hobbies. I have a bunch I'll sell ya too.