Hawkeye's Hobbies Natural Metal Finish Paints

Look at the results our plastic scale modeling customers are achieving with our lines of natural metal finish paints and polishing powders. Whether you're building a modeling kit that calls for a drab metal finish or one that's polished to a high sheen, you can achieve it with Talon Acrylics or SnJ Spray Metal enamel paints.

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PRODUCT AVAILABILITY: For the immediate future, we are going to discontinue selling through retailers, instead selling only direct to our customers. This is purely a business decision on our part. During these tight economic times cost of raw materials and production supplies continues to rise thus margins tend to shrink. We had two options, raise the retail price thus ensuring our margins are sustained. Or eliminate the wholesale and jobber price tiers to hold retail prices where they are. We are therefore opting to keep retail prices where they are (with some very minor adjustments and discontinuation of certain products) and sell direct to you our customers.

Our commitment to quaility and service remains the same! Though we know this is an inconvience for some, you can be assured that the products you order are produced at the time of your order. Retailers currently stocking our products will no doubt continue to sell what they have on hand until those supplies are exhausted. Thank you for your continued patronage!

Talon Acrylic Paints

Hawkeye's Polishing Powders

SnJ Spray Metal Enamel Paint

Did You Know SnJ Spray Metal & Talon Can Be Tinted?

To create more colors...use gloss (enamels for SnJ and acrylics for Talon) paints to create tonal effects of other metals. Here are a couple of simple formulas.

STEEL: 3 drops gloss black, 1 drop dark blue mixed with 1/2 oz (one half bottle) of Spray Metal or Talon Aluminum.

TITANIUM: 2 drops gloss black, 2 drops dark brown, 1 drop orange mixed with 1/2 oz of Spray Metal or Talon Aluminum.

More color options using resources that are already at hand on your scale modeling workbench.