I was advised by a fellow club member recently that some of the dedicated paint and wallpaper (!) shops still offer custom colour mixing using genuine SPIRIT based paints!

As soon as I can find somewhere that offer this service I will get some mixed.

If I can get some spirit based Lifeboat Orange and matching spirit based Pink Undercoat mixed I would be really impressed! 👍

You are quite right about the difficulty of finding oil based paints these days. In the past I had been able to get this from Wickes, Wilkos, Yorkshire Trading and others, but they have nearly all disappeared.
However, after a little bit of research I discovered that Johnstones sell not only quick dry water based paints, but also oil based paint.
I found that my local Yorkshire Trading sells this, as well as other brands of oil paint, and also B&M Homestores.
Another name that does oil paint is Sandtex.
😉

Cheers Bob, missed your earlier post

Hi Doogle,

I have pictured the actual tin of paint that I referred to so you can see exactly what I used.

Bob.

As Duncan mentioned earlier, can you say what the manufacturers name was?

If the cleaning instructions on the can say you need white spirit to clean the brushes with, it is probably spirit based paint and should be suitable for use on model boats etc......

Good tip regarding Poundland Yacht varnish Roy 👍

Bob.

Hi all it is not always easy to check on the base of the paint. I usually check on brush cleaning instructions which tells you all.

I have been using Poundland Yacht varnish, surprisingly good, the tins are not too large and it is cheap. Need to clean the brushes with spirit.
Roy

The paint that I had a problem with came in a tin like this one, but other manufacturers of 'easy clean-up", "low odour", "fast drying", paint probably all have similar characteristics ?

I suspect that every manufacturer of these fast drying/easy clean-up paints will have broadly similar products, so I don't really want to name any of them.

This does not in any way reduce my exasperation that almost every household paint offered for sale these days is of this type!

Finding good "old fashioned" spirit based paints to protect our outdoors woodwork (doors, window frames etc) ....as well as our model boats, is no longer as easy as walking into the nearest super-store or hardware shop as most only stock this stuff !

I appreciate that most modellers will simply reach for a rattle can to paint their model boats, but for those of us that try to brush paint old Classic Model Powerboats in the traditional way, it s getting much harder to find good spirit based paints.

I see you are in the UK. Here in the US I use Testors enamel (small jars and spray cans) for small jobs and the enamel larger "rattle cans" for hulls, decks, etc., wherever water will contact. I don't use much water based paints on my boats.

The water based paints are great on my tanks, especially when airbrushing.

Lew
Florida, USA