Product Review - Black Spray Paint by White Knight

Quite a few people out there always look for alternatives when it comes to hobby products. We all know the hobby we love and know isn't cheap, so when a decently priced alternative comes, we are all over it like fly on shit.

Today we feature the undercoat. Personally, I've always gone for black over white. I have tried white a few times and it seems to me that painting over it is more hard work.

When I first got into this hobby, I used the really cheap spray paint from Go-Lo, The Warehouse and from any bargain store. They were cheap as chips and ranged from $3 to $6. I have been using these sorts of spray paint from 2001 (when I first started) up to late last year.

While they quality was OK, it often smudged - even when I left the model to dry for a couple of hours. Also, the black wouldn't cover those recesses in highly detailed models. So quite often I was spending a decent amount of time painting black over the model anyway.

Sick of having black smudged all over my hand and wasting time adding more black paint, I went to the GW/Citadel sprays. The quality is great and is made for models, Unfortunately, it is very dear - at a whopping $24.

I must admit, I didn't mind paying the amount for GW paints as the quality was great and got the results I wanted.

Then early this year, friends recommended I try the Squirts range which can be purchased from any Bunnings hardware store. They showed me the quality of the spray paint and was quite impressed.

The spray gets to the recesses as well as any GW/Citadel paint and is relatively thin. Meaning, even if you do decide to spray extra layers, the model won't 'cake' with paint.

The quality of Squirts is almost as a good as Citadels, if not, as good.

Of course, the best thing about Squirts is the price - it's $9.80 a can. It can be bought from any Bunnings warehouse, which is just about anywhere (well, in Sydney anyway), so access to this product should be fairly easy.

I would highly recommend this item to anyone looking for a cheap product while attaining a great quality that could easily be compared to that of Citadels version.